CVE-2013-6078
The default configuration of EMC RSA BSAFE Toolkits and RSA Data Protection Manager (DPM) 20130918 uses the Dual Elliptic Curve…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The default configuration of EMC RSA BSAFE Toolkits and RSA Data Protection Manager (DPM) 20130918 uses the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation (Dual_EC_DRBG) algorithm, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging unspecified "security concerns," aka the ESA-2013-068 issue. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT from CVE-2007-6755 because the vendor announcement did not state a specific technical rationale for a change in the algorithm; thus, CVE cannot reach a conclusion that a CVE-2007-6755 concern was the reason, or one of the reasons, for this change.
Timeline
ID reserved
By oracle
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (11 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
References
4
- http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-332655/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/rsa-warns-developers-against-its-own.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://threatpost.com/in-wake-of-latest-crypto-revelations-everything-is-suspect (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/stop-using-nsa-influence-code-in-our-product-rsa-tells-customers/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2013-5907 (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-2013-6078)Record last updated .