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CVE-2013-7239
memcached before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an invalid request with SASL credentials, then sending…
Medium4.8EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- debian
Description
memcached before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an invalid request with SASL credentials, then sending another request with incorrect SASL credentials.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 14 days later
· 14 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 | Medium4.8 | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 64559 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1417 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20131230 Re: CVE Request: SASL authentication allows wrong credentials to access memcache (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2080-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-2832 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 56183 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2013-7018 (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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