Access Restriction Bypass Affecting subversion package, versions [,1.7.12)[1.8.0, 1.8.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SUBVERSION-2382154
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Sept 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-4277  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade subversion to version 1.7.12, 1.8.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Svnserve in Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.12 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or kill arbitrary processes via a symlink attack on the file specified by the --pid-file option.

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