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CVE-2013-6474

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6474 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in the pdftoopvp filter within CUPS and cups-filters versions prior to 1.0.47, affecting distributions like Canonical, Debian, and Fedora. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying a specially crafted PDF file. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it presents a medium severity risk due to network accessibility and medium attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 85/100, 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
<= 1.0.46CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cups-filters:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cups-filters:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cups-filters:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cups-filters:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cups-filters:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0307 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bzr.linuxfoundation.org / loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7176
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2875
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2876
securityfocus.com / bid/66163
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2143-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2144-1