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CVE-2013-1968

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1968 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Subversion versions before 1.6.23 and 1.7.x before 1.7.10, impacting products from Apache, Canonical, CollabNet, and openSUSE. An authenticated remote attacker can corrupt an FSFS repository by including a newline character in a filename. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating medium severity with low attack complexity and requiring authentication, leading to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.5MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0281 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: subversion-0:1.6.11-12.el5_10
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: subversion-0:1.6.11-10.el6_5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1968Low

format): Filenames with newline character can lead to revision corruption

May 31, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00015.html
mail-archives.apache.org / mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201305.mbox/%3CCADkdwvRK51pQsybfvsAzjxQJrmVpL0fEa1K4WGkUP9Tzz6KFDw%40mail.gmail.com%3E
mail-archives.apache.org / mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201305.mbox/%3CCADkdwvTxsMFeHgc8bK2V-2PrSrKoBffTi8%2BxbHA5tocrrewWew%40mail.gmail.com%3E
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0255.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18986
subversion.apache.org / security/CVE-2013-1968-advisory.txt
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2703
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1893-1