CVE-2013-7459 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ALGnew function of the Python Cryptography Toolkit (pycrypto), affecting products like dlitz fedora and fedoraproject. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying a specially crafted initialization vector (iv) parameter, as demonstrated in cryptmsg.py. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it poses a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dlitz:pycrypto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
25CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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