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CVE-2013-6494

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6494 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in fedup 0.9.0, affecting Fedora 19, 20, and 21. The flaw stems from fedup's use of a temporary directory with a static name for its download cache, allowing local users to prevent system updates. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and resulting in a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fedup_project:fedup:0.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 45th 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 (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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fedoravendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/141698.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/142698.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/142933.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
github.com / wgwoods/fedup/issues/44
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/70874