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CVE-2013-1962

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1962 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libvirt 1.0.5, specifically within the remoteDispatchStoragePoolListAllVolumes function of its storage pool manager, affecting Red Hat libvirt products. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a large number of requests to list all volumes for a particular storage pool, leading to file descriptor consumption and a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with low attack complexity and no impact on confidentiality or integrity, only availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0351 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.10.2-18.el6_4.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1962Moderate

libvirt: DoS (max count of open files exhaustion) due sockets leak in the storage pool

May 16, 2013

References

libvirt.org / git
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106906.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106921.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00022.html
osvdb.org / 93451
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0831.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/53440
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/53475
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/84341
redhat.com / archives/libvir-list/2013-May/msg01222.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/05/16/9
securityfocus.com / bid/59937
securitytracker.com / id/1028577
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1895-1