CVE record · CVE-2013-0261

Packstack: packstack: arbitrary file overwrite via symlink attack

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0034 · 28th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 8 Mar 2013, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6 Package name: openstack-packstack https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2012.2.2-1.0.dev408.el6ost to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) Package name: openstack-packstack https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 Package name: openstack-packstack https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2013-0261
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59
Tags: Red Hat OpenStack Folsom for RHEL 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4
Path traversal
Published: 8 Mar 2013
Updated: 30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0034, the 28th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 8 Mar 2013. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0595.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0595 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0261 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908101

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