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CVE-2013-2207

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2207 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) affecting versions prior to 2.18, specifically impacting Fedora and other GNU systems. The flaw in pt_chown allows local users to manipulate tty file permissions via a FUSE filesystem, potentially gaining access to arbitrary pseudo-terminals. With a CVSS score of 2.6 (low severity), exploitation requires local access and high attack complexity, leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2207Moderate

(pt_chown): Improper pseudotty ownership and permissions changes when granting access to the slave pseudoterminal

Jul 16, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00019.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00036.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/55113
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-04
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Patch
sourceware.org / ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00160.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2985-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2985-2