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medium 4.8

CVE-2013-7239 json

memcached before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an invalid request with SASL credentials, then sending…

published 2014-01-13 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-7018

cvss
4.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • memcached Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.4.13-0.3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7239

  • memcached OpenStack Cloud 6 1.4.39-3.3.1
  • memcached OpenStack Cloud 7, Enterprise Storage 4 1.4.39-3.3.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0807-1SUSE-SU-2018:0778-1

  • memcached openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.4.33-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10021-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-7239 updated cvss 4.8

memcached: SASL authentication allows wrong credentials to access memcache

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 memcached Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 memcached Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 memcached
    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

1.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.8 AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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