Link following in libimobiledevice - CVE-2013-2142
Published: January 19, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42138
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2142
CWE-ID: CWE-59
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: libimobiledevice
Affected software:
libimobiledevice
libimobiledevice
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.
userpref.c in libimobiledevice 1.1.4, when $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME are not set, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) HostCertificate.pem, (2) HostPrivateKey.pem, (3) libimobiledevicerc, (4) RootCertificate.pem, or (5) RootPrivateKey.pem in /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-2142
Install update from vendor's website.