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CVE-2013-4392

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4392 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in systemd where a symlink attack can be used to manipulate file permissions and SELinux security contexts for arbitrary files during permission updates. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), this vulnerability requires local access and user interaction (UI:R) to achieve high confidentiality impact (C:H) but no integrity or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low likelihood of real-world exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 239CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:systemd_project:systemd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 381 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: systemd

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4392Moderate

systemd: TOCTOU race condition when updating file permissions and SELinux security contexts

Sep 23, 2013

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/10/01/9
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory