Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.1.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information about arbitrary files via vectors relat…

published 2018-05-01 8y ago modified 2026-06-16 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-4114

cvss: 3.3; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits: 0; none known

Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.1.6 allows local users to obtain sensitive information about arbitrary files via vectors related to sha1sums.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

redhat automatic_bug_reporting_tool 2.1.6

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4209 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 1.2

ABRT: (substantially) limited leak of unauthorized information

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 abrt, abrt-cli, abrt-gui, abrt-tui, abrt-libs, abrt-python, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 abrt, abrt-cli, abrt-gui, abrt-tui, abrt-dbus, abrt-libs, +12 more
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

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	3.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	2.1	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=991604
issue-tracking, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2013-4209
NVD CVE-2013-4209

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