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medium 6.8

CVE-2013-4478 json

Sup Code Injection vulnerability

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-5f2p-6vjv-2q2m , EUVD-2022-2570

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Sup before 0.13.2.1 and 0.14.x before 0.14.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename of an email attachment.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems sup 0.13.2.1, 0.14.1.1
  • sup-mail Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.12.1+git20120407.aaa852f-1+deb7u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4478

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4478 updated cvss 7.5

rubygem-sup: command injection flaw in attachment filename handling

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/commit/8b46cdbfc14e07ca07d403aa28b0e7bc1c544785 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems sup
<0.13.2.1
>=0.14.0, <0.14.1.1
0.13.2.1
0.14.1.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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