CVE-2013-6441: Linuxcontainers Lxc

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The lxc-sshd template (templates/lxc-sshd.in) in LXC before 1.0.0.beta2 uses read-write permissions when mounting /sbin/init, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the init file.

Affected products

• Linuxcontainers Lxc: up to and including 0.9.0; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.2.1 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.4.0 only; …

Published 2014-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.