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CVE-2013-0160

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0160 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux kernel, affecting versions up to 3.7.9. A local attacker can leverage the inotify API on the /dev/ptmx device to obtain sensitive keystroke timing information. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with the primary impact being confidentiality. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, an exploit demonstrating local disclosure of keystroke timing exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has seen minimal community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.0:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-24459 · Feb 5, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 85th 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

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: kernel
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: realtime-kernel

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-0160Low

kernel: /dev/ptmx to measure inter-keystroke timing

Jan 7, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00018.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/01/08/3
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2128-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2129-1