CVE-2013-5528
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Tomcat administrative web interface in Cisco Unified Communications Manager allows remote…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 23.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Tomcat administrative web interface in Cisco Unified Communications Manager allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in an unspecified input string, aka Bug ID CSCui78815.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Nuclei templates1 template
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7/8/9 - Directory Traversal (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2013/CVE-2013-5528.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7/8/9 - Directory Traversal (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 40887webapps, hardwarepublished 7 Dec 2016Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 40887 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 50 days later
· 50 days 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 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 23.3% · top 2.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 40887 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140071/Cisco-Unified-Communications-Manager-7-8-9-Directory-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 98336 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 62960 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20131010 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administrative Web Interface Directory Traversal Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_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-2013-5368 (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-2013-5528)Record last updated .