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CVE-2013-6433

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6433 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the default configuration of the Red Hat openstack-neutron package, affecting various OpenStack and Canonical Ubuntu Linux distributions. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious configuration file for rootwrap, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 7.6, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring network access and high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not widely targeted.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2013.1, <= 2013.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:neutron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.6HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0332 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6Fixed in: openstack-neutron-0:2013.2.3-7.el6ost
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3Fixed in: openstack-quantum

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-6433Low

openstack-quantum/openstack-neutron: rootwrap sudo config allows potential privilege escalation

May 29, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0516.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59533
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2255-1
Third Party Advisory