CVE-2013-1753

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.035 · 89 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.46% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

10 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The gzip_decode function in the xmlrpc client library in Python 3.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HTTP request.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USLLM-inferred

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source Pythonall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:python:python:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
python python2.7.0 → 2.7.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python3.2.0 → 3.2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python3.3.0 → 3.3.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
python python3.4.0 → 3.4.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:python:python:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-2521Python: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2015-06-04csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Python ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen oder Code zur Ausführung zu bringen.
PSF-2020-1xmlrpc gzip unlimited read2020-03-11vendor · osvUS
The gzip_decode function in the xmlrpc client library in Python 3.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted HTTP request.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-03-11modified 2026-06-16

references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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