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CVE-2013-2853
The HTTPS implementation in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 does not ensure that headers are terminated by \r\n\r\n (carriage return,…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 34% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The HTTPS implementation in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 does not ensure that headers are terminated by \r\n\r\n (carriage return, newline, carriage return, newline), which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors that trigger header truncation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Chrome
- 3 months later
· 3 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=244260 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=44b400c80726ee5d205a27730a0c846be656a071 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17033 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- DSA-2724 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/07/stable-channel-update.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f4f9f4948de5a59462e13ad712d7d9117238aeea (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2013-2792 (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-2013-2853)Record last updated .