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CVE-2013-0157

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0157 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the mount and umount utilities of util-linux versions 2.14.1 and 2.17.2, and likely others. Local users can determine the existence of restricted directories by observing differing error messages when using the --guess-fstype option or attempting to mount a non-existent device. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating a local attack with low complexity and a potential impact of partial confidentiality loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.14.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kernel:util-linux:2.14.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.17.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kernel:util-linux:2.17.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: util-linux-ng-0:2.17.2-12.9.el6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: util-linux
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: util-linux

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-0157Low

util-linux: mount folder existence information disclosure

Jan 5, 2013

References

bugs.debian.org / 697464
marc.info
osvdb.org / 88953
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0517.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
mandriva.com / security/advisories