Input validation error in Subversion - CVE-2013-1846

 

Input validation error in Subversion - CVE-2013-1846

Published: May 2, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32681
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1846
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a LOCK on an activity URL.


Affected software

Subversion
Amazon Linux AMI
subversion (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-1846

Update to version 1.6.21.

Subversion - update to 1.6.21
subversion (Alpine package) - update to 1.7.9-r0

External References

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