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CVE-2013-1052

Published: Mar 21, 2013 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
HIGH
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1052
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

pam-xdg-support, as used in Ubuntu 12.10, does not properly handle the PATH environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to sudo.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 12.10 (including) 12.10 (including)
Pam-xdg-support Ubuntu devel *
Pam-xdg-support Ubuntu quantal *

References

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