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CVE-2013-2516

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2516 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) affecting FileUtils v0.7 and earlier Ruby Gem Fileutils, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a user-supplied URL. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), successful exploitation requires user interaction and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fileutils_project:fileutils:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0333 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: fileutilsFixed in: 0.7.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-9x97-x2p9-hvpfhigh

Fileutils Command Injection vulnerability

May 14, 2022

References

rubygems.org / gems/fileutils
ProductThird Party Advisory
vapidlabs.com / advisory.php
ExploitThird Party Advisory