CVE-2013-2561: Openfabrics Ibutils

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) ibdiagnet.db, (2) ibdiagnet.fdbs, (3) ibdiagnet_ibis.log, (4) ibdiagnet.log, (5) ibdiagnet.lst, (6) ibdiagnet.mcfdbs, (7) ibdiagnet.pkey, (8) ibdiagnet.psl, (9) ibdiagnet.slvl, or (10) ibdiagnet.sm in /tmp/.

Affected products

• Openfabrics Ibutils: version 1.5.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only

Published 2013-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.