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CVE-2013-6492

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6492 describes a security bypass vulnerability in the Piranha Configuration Tool, specifically affecting Piranha version 0.8.6. This flaw allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized read or modify access to the LVS configuration through crafted HTTP POST requests. With a CVSS score of 5.8, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, indicating that an attacker on the adjacent network can exploit it with low complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit modules, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ryan_ohara:piranha:0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-39097 · Dec 11, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0400 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: piranha-0:0.8.4-26.el5_10.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: piranha-0:0.8.6-4.el6_5.2
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: piranha

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-6492Important

piranha: web UI authentication bypass using POST requests

Dec 11, 2013

References

bugs.centos.org / view.php
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0174.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0175.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi