CVE-2013-7172

HIGH

Slackware - Local Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Slackware 13.1, 13.37, 14.0 and 14.1 contain world-writable permissions on the iodbctest and iodbctestw programs within the libiodbc package, which could allow local users to use RPATH information to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7172
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-7172
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/20/1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89916

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0046
EPSS Percentile 36.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (4)
slackware/slackware_linux 13.1
slackware/slackware_linux 13.37
slackware/slackware_linux 14.0
slackware/slackware_linux 14.1
Published Nov 21, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026