CVE-2013-4419: Libguestfs

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.

Affected products

• Libguestfs Libguestfs: from 1.20.0, up to and including 1.20.12; from 1.22.0, up to and including 1.22.7
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11.0 only
• Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 11.0 only

Published 2013-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.