CVE-2013-2038
The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon termination) and possibly execute…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon termination) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was also reported, but it might not be a vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpsd.git/commit/?id=dd9c3c2830cb8f8fd8491ce68c82698dc5538f50 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93000 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- USN-1820-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130507 Re: CVE Request -- gpsd 3.9 fixing a denial of service flaw (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130502 Re: CVE Request -- gpsd 3.9 fixing a denial of service flaw (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [gpsd-dev] 20130501 3.9 is released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 93001 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-2020 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-2038)Record last updated .