CVE-2013-4342

Exp

xinetd does not enforce the user and group configuration directives for TCPMUX services, which causes these services to be run as root and makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging another vulnerability in a service.

Published: 2013-10-10 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-4342 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.9/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.39%, 93th percentile). 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-2013-4342

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-4342

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 15.27% 6.39% -8.88%
2 2025-08-11 9.92% 15.27% +5.35%
3 2025-03-20 — 9.92% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-4342

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.6 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 4.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-4342

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-4342

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2013-4342 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xinetd), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4342
gentoo normal CVE-2013-4342: 1 GLSA(s) (201611-06), 1 atom(s) (sys-apps/xinetd); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2013-4342
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4342
ubuntu low CVE-2013-4342 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xinetd), 21 status rows across 21 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 12, not-affected 8, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4342

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-4342

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
xinetd xinetd — cpe:2.3:a:xinetd:xinetd:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 5 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-4342

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