CVE-2013-4235

shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees

CVSS 3.1

4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-367

Published

2019-12-03

Modified

2026-10-14

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• debian:debian_linux
• debian:shadow
• fedoraproject:fedora
• redhat:enterprise_linux

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4235
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4235
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4235
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-26

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