CVE-2013-4235: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Debian Shadow: affected versions not specified
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 16 only; version 17 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2019-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.