Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Subversion - CVE-2013-4505
Published: December 7, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32571
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4505
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The is_this_legal function in mod_dontdothat for Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.13 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.4 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and possibly cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a relative URL in a REPORT request.
Affected software
Subversion
Amazon Linux AMI
Slackware Linux
subversion (Alpine package)
Amazon Linux AMI
Slackware Linux
subversion (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4505
Install update from vendor's website.
Subversion - update to 1.7.14
subversion (Alpine package) - update to 1.7.16-r0
subversion (Alpine package) - update to 1.7.16-r0