Information disclosure in Opensuse - CVE-2013-3713
Published: January 11, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42168
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-3713
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Affected software:
Opensuse
Opensuse
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The image creation configuration in aaa_base before 16.26.1 for openSUSE 13.1 KDE adds the root user to the "users" group when installing from a live image, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information and possibly have other unspecified impacts, as demonstrated by reading /etc/shadow.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-3713
Install update from vendor's website.