CVE detail

CVE-2013-1858 — CVE-2013-1858

Published 2013-04-05 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
n/a
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0169
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
75.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

The clone system-call implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 does not properly handle a combination of the CLONE_NEWUSER and CLONE_FS flags, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling chroot and leveraging the sharing of the / directory between a parent process and a child process.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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