CVE-2013-2142

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

userpref.c in libimobiledevice 1.1.4, when $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME are not set, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) HostCertificate.pem, (2) HostPrivateKey.pem, (3) libimobiledevicerc, (4) RootCertificate.pem, or (5) RootPrivateKey.pem in /tmp/root/.config/libimobiledevice/.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.3/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Jan 19, 2014
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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