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CVE-2013-6480

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6480 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability in Apache Libcloud versions 0.12.3 through 0.13.2. The flaw stems from the DigitalOcean API not properly setting the scrub_data parameter during VM destruction, allowing local users to recover sensitive information from newly provisioned VMs. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access is required for exploitation and the impact is limited to confidentiality. While not listed in CISA KEV and showing no active exploitation or significant community discussion, a proof-of-concept exploit (EDB-38937) is publicly available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:libcloud:0.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:libcloud:0.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:libcloud:0.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:libcloud:0.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:libcloud:0.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38937 · Jan 1, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0206 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: apache-libcloudFixed in: 0.13.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-g892-9h8m-r69rlow

Libcloud does not properly scrub data when destroying a DigitalOcean node

May 14, 2022

References

libcloud.apache.org / security.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00015.html
digitalocean.com / blog_posts/transparency-regarding-data-security
github.com / fog/fog/issues/2525
securityfocus.com / archive/1/530624/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/64617