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CVE-2013-6450

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6450 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenSSL versions 1.0.0 before 1.0.0l and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1f, specifically within its DTLS retransmission implementation. A man-in-the-middle attacker could exploit this by interfering with packet delivery, causing an application crash due to improper maintenance of digest and encryption contexts. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.8, indicating a medium severity with network access and medium attack complexity, leading to potential data integrity issues and application unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:1.0.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
14.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1454 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openssl-0:1.0.1e-16.el6_5.4
View patch
wagopatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: ['8.0.7']

Vendor Advisories (2)

redhatCVE-2013-6450Important

openssl: crash in DTLS renegotiation after packet loss

Dec 19, 2013
wagollm-wago-08b8a4a34317d78fHIGH

Upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1f

References

git.openssl.org / gitweb
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136470.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136473.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00031.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00032.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0015.html
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201412-39.xml
puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2013-6450
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2013-6450
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2833
openssl.org / news/vulnerabilities.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/64618
securitytracker.com / id/1029549
securitytracker.com / id/1031594
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2079-1
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html