CVE-2013-2185
The readObject method in the DiskFileItem class in Apache Tomcat and JBoss Web, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 7.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The readObject method in the DiskFileItem class in Apache Tomcat and JBoss Web, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.1.0 and Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.0.0, allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a NULL byte in a file name in a serialized instance, a similar issue to CVE-2013-2186. NOTE: this issue is reportedly disputed by the Apache Tomcat team, although Red Hat considers it a vulnerability. The dispute appears to regard whether it is the responsibility of applications to avoid providing untrusted data to be deserialized, or whether this class should inherently protect against this issue
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 11 months later
· 11 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.2% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.tomcat:tomcatGHSA-v6c7-8qx5-8gmp (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- [oss-security] 20130905 Re: CVE-2013-2185 / Tomcat (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1193 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1265 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141024 Re: Duplicate Request: CVE-2013-4444 as a duplicate of CVE-2013-2185 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1194 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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-2022-5293 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-v6c7-8qx5-8gmp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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