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CVE-2013-2641

69
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2641 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in patience.cgi within Sophos Web Appliance versions prior to 3.7.8.2. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files on the affected appliance by manipulating the 'id' parameter. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is moderately severe, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit modules exist in Metasploit and ExploitDB, indicating readily available exploit code, despite a lack of significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.7.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:sophos:web_appliance_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:sophos:web_appliance:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
70.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Sophos Web Protection Appliance patience.cgi Directory Traversal · Apr 3, 2013
ExploitDB: EDB-24932 · Apr 8, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7099 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

sec-consult.com / fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20130403-0_Sophos_Web_Protection_Appliance_Multiple_Vulnerabilities.txt
Exploit
sophos.com / en-us/support/knowledgebase/118969.aspx
Vendor Advisory