CVE-2013-5960
The authenticated-encryption feature in the symmetric-encryption implementation in the OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) for Java 2.x…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The authenticated-encryption feature in the symmetric-encryption implementation in the OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) for Java 2.x before 2.1.0.1 does not properly resist tampering with serialized ciphertext, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended cryptographic protection mechanisms via an attack against the intended cipher mode in a non-default configuration, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-5679.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.owasp.esapi:esapiGHSA-2g56-7jv7-wxxq (opens in a new tab)
References
7
- 62415 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [esapi-dev] 20130821 ESAPI Java and Authenticated encryption implementation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://code.google.com/p/owasp-esapi-java/issues/detail?id=306 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/issues/359 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/esapi/esapi-java-legacy/issues/306 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/blob/master/documentation/esapi4java-core-2.1.0.1-release-notes.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://owasp-esapi-java.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/documentation/ESAPI-security-bulletin1.pdf (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-2022-1979 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-2g56-7jv7-wxxq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-5960)Record last updated .