CVE-2013-4277

subversion: svnserve is vulnerable to symlink attack

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · August 30, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

Svnserve in Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.12 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files or kill arbitrary processes via a symlink attack on the file specified by the --pid-file option.

Statement

The Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider this issue to be a security flaw. For technical details please refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000202#c10

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified