CVE-2013-0249

highpriority · attend · 48EPSS 0.216 · 98 %ileexploit · PoCDEEURUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
1 exploit · PoC
Likely / severe?
21.6% (98th) EPSS
CVSS 7.5 · high
Is it mine?
12 products
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Who says so?
6 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Curl_sasl_create_digest_md5_message function in lib/curl_sasl.c in curl and libcurl 7.26.0 through 7.28.1, when negotiating SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in the realm parameter in a (1) POP3, (2) SMTP or (3) IMAP message.

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7.5
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.5

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4
v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Psecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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exploits (1)

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affected products (12)

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advisories (2)

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  • WID-SEC-W-2023-1659cURL: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Ausführen beliebigen Programmcodes mit den Rechten des DienstesDeutsch2013-02-07csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in cURL ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode mit den Rechten des Dienstes auszuführen.

  • CURL-CVE-2013-0249SASL buffer overflow2013-02-06vendor · osvUS

    libcurl is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability when communicating with one of the protocols POP3, SMTP or IMAP. When negotiating SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication, the function `Curl_sasl_create_digest_md5_message()` uses the data provided from the server without doing the proper length checks and that data is then appended to a local fixed-size buffer on the stack. This vulnerability can be exploited by someone who is in control of a server that a libcurl based program is accessing with POP3, SMTP or IMAP. For applications that accept user provided URLs, it is also thinkable that a malicious user would feed an application with a URL to a server hosting code targeting this flaw. This vulnerability can be used for remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable systems. Both curl the command line tool and applications using the libcurl library are vulnerable.

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