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CVE-2013-1910

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1910 describes a critical denial-of-service vulnerability in yum and Debian Linux's yum package, stemming from improper handling of malformed metadata. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this with low complexity by injecting a Trojan horse file into a remote repository's metadata, leading to a complete system compromise (CVSS 9.8). Despite its severity, there is no public exploit code available, nor is it listed on the KEV catalog, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:baseurl:yum:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0250 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1910Moderate

yum: Not removing bad metadata and using it in next run

Mar 27, 2013

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/cve-2013-1910
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/83348
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2013-1910
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/03/29/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/58533
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry