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CVE-2013-4297

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4297 describes an uninitialized pointer dereference vulnerability in the virFileNBDDeviceAssociate function of libvirt 1.1.2 and earlier, affecting Red Hat libvirt products. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash). With a CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P), it indicates a network-based attack requiring authentication, leading to partial availability impact. 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
<= 1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0197 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 21,977 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 0.1 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 nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4297Moderate

libvirt: invalid free in virFileNBDDeviceAssociate

Sep 3, 2013

References

libvirt.org / git
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/60895
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml