CVE-2013-3709

SUSE WebYaST 1.3 - Local Privilege Escalation via Weak Permissions on Rails Secret Token

Title source: llm

Description

WebYaST 1.3 uses weak permissions for config/initializers/secret_token.rb, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the Rails secret token from this file.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00014.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00001.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00012.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00013.html

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/rails_secret_deserialization.rb

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Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00006.html

Exploit x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851116

Scores

EPSS 0.0048

EPSS Percentile 38.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Products (3)

novell/suse_lifecycle_management_server 1.3

suse/studio_onsite 1.3

suse/webyast 1.3

Published Dec 23, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026