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CVE-2013-2029

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2029 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the nagios.upgrade_to_v3.sh script distributed by Red Hat for Nagios Core versions 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier, as well as Red Hat OpenStack. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on a predictably named temporary file in /tmp/. With a CVSS score of 6.3, this vulnerability has high impact on integrity and availability, but requires medium attack complexity and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
9.2
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: nagios-0:3.5.1-2.el6ost
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: nagios

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2029Moderate

core: Insecure temporary file usage in nagios.upgrade_to_v3.sh

Apr 30, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi