CVE-2013-2561

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OpenFabrics ibutils 1.5.7 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) ibdiagnet.db, (2) ibdiagnet.fdbs, (3) ibdiagnet_ibis.log, (4) ibdiagnet.log, (5) ibdiagnet.lst, (6) ibdiagnet.mcfdbs, (7) ibdiagnet.pkey, (8) ibdiagnet.psl, (9) ibdiagnet.slvl, or (10) ibdiagnet.sm in /tmp/.

Published: 2013-11-23 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-2561 is rated Exploit Available (53.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.47%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-2561

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-2561

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.08% 0.47% +0.39%
2 2025-07-20 0.04% 0.08% +0.05%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-2561

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.4 9.2 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-2561

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-2561

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2013-2561 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ibutils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2561
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2561
ubuntu low CVE-2013-2561 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ibutils), 32 status rows across 32 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hardy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oneiric, oracular, plucky, precise, quantal, questing, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 22, needed 5, DNE 3, not-affected 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2561

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-2561

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openfabrics ibutils 1.5.7 cpe:2.3:a:openfabrics:ibutils:1.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-2561

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