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medium 6.9

CVE-2013-2007 json

The qemu guest agent in Qemu 1.4.1 and earlier, as used by Xen, when started in daemon mode, uses weak permissions for certain files, which…

published 2013-05-21 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-1998

cvss
6.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 31%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The qemu guest agent in Qemu 1.4.1 and earlier, as used by Xen, when started in daemon mode, uses weak permissions for certain files, which allows local users to read and write to these files.

Patch / fix

  • qemu-kvm RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5
  • qemu-img RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5
  • qemu-kvm-tools RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5
  • qemu-guest-agent RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5
  • qemu-guest-agent-win32 RHEL 6 2:0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0896

  • xen openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.7.0_12-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-2007 updated cvss 6.2

qemu: guest agent creates files with insecure permissions in deamon mode

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) qemu-img 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm-tools 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent-win32 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) qemu-img 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm-tools 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent-win32 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) qemu-img 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm-tools 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent-win32 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) qemu-img 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-kvm-tools 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) qemu-kvm 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5, qemu-guest-agent-win32 0.12.1.2-2.355.el6_4.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0896
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kvm, xen, virtio-win Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 virtio-win Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-kvm-tools, libcacard-tools, qemu-kvm-common, +1 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 qemu-kvm-rhev
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.