CVE-2013-4235

MEDIUM

Debian Shadow - TOCTOU Race Condition

Title source: rule

Description

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

References (5)

[Third Party Advisory] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4235

[Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4235

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

[Third Party Advisory] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4235

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-26

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 17.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-367

Status published

Affected Products (8)

debian/shadow

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

redhat/enterprise_linux

redhat/enterprise_linux

Timeline

Published Dec 03, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026