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CVE-2013-4180

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4180 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Foreman before version 1.2.2, affecting its HostController power and ipmi_boot actions. Remote attackers can exploit this by providing unspecified input that is converted to a symbol, leading to excessive memory consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:theforeman:foreman:1.2.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0241 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-foreman-0:1.1.10014-1.2.el6ost
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.0Fixed in: foreman-0:1.6.0.44-1.el6sat
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: ruby193-foreman

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4180Low

Foreman: hosts_controller.rb power/ipmi_boot Symbol creation DoS

Sep 3, 2013

References

projects.theforeman.org / issues/2860
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1196.html
theforeman.org / manuals/1.2/index.html
Patch