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CVE-2013-1909

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1909 describes a critical vulnerability in the Python client for Apache Qpid (versions prior to 2.2) and related Red Hat products, where it fails to properly validate server hostnames against X.509 certificate fields. This oversight enables man-in-the-middle attacks, allowing attackers to spoof SSL servers using any valid certificate. With a CVSS score of 5.8, this medium-complexity vulnerability (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N) could lead to partial compromise of confidentiality and integrity. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0157 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: qpid-pythonFixed in: 0.22
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: python-qpid-0:0.18-5.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: qpid-cpp-0:0.18-17.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: qpid-java-0:0.18-8.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: qpid-qmf-0:0.18-18.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: qpid-tools-0:0.18-10.el6_4
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: python-qpid

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-3g2p-7c6p-vj8chigh

Apache Qpid Python client Improper certificate validation

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2013-1909Moderate

python-qpid: client does not validate qpid server TLS/SSL certificate

Jun 13, 2013

References

qpid.apache.org / releases/qpid-0.22/release-notes.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1024.html
secunia.com / advisories/53968
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/54137
Vendor Advisory
issues.apache.org / jira/browse/QPID-4918
Patch
svn.apache.org / viewvc
Patch