CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-4235

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Dec 03, 2019 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
4.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
3.3 LOW
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
3.7 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
4.4 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

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

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Shadow Debian - (including) - (including)
Shadow Ubuntu artful *
Shadow Ubuntu bionic *
Shadow Ubuntu cosmic *
Shadow Ubuntu disco *
Shadow Ubuntu eoan *
Shadow Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Shadow Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Shadow Ubuntu esm-infra/focal *
Shadow Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Shadow Ubuntu focal *
Shadow Ubuntu groovy *
Shadow Ubuntu hirsute *
Shadow Ubuntu impish *
Shadow Ubuntu jammy *
Shadow Ubuntu kinetic *
Shadow Ubuntu lucid *
Shadow Ubuntu precise *
Shadow Ubuntu precise/esm *
Shadow Ubuntu trusty *
Shadow Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Shadow Ubuntu upstream *
Shadow Ubuntu utopic *
Shadow Ubuntu vivid *
Shadow Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Shadow Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Shadow Ubuntu wily *
Shadow Ubuntu xenial *
Shadow Ubuntu yakkety *
Shadow Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References