CVE-2013-7345

CVE-2013-7345 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the 'file' utility, affecting versions prior to 5.15, as well as various Debian and PHP distributions. The vulnerability stems from an inefficient regular expression in the awk script detector, which can be triggered by a specially crafted ASCII file containing numerous newline characters. This can lead to high CPU consumption due to excessive backtracking. The CVSS score of 5.0 indicates a medium severity, with a network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, resulting in a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.