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CVE-2013-5651

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-5651 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the virBitmapParse function of libvirt versions prior to 1.1.2, affecting Red Hat libvirt products. This flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) by providing a specially crafted bitmap, such as a large nodeset value to numatune. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability with low attack complexity and no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.1CPE 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

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
2.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0226 is in the 71st 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-5651Moderate

libvirt: virBitmapParse out-of-bounds read access

Aug 29, 2013

References

libvirt.org / git
libvirt.org / news.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00024.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/60895
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/08/30/1
Patch
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1954-1