CVE-2013-1910

CRITICAL

yum - Denial of Service via Trojan Horse Metadata File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

yum does not properly handle bad metadata, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and possibly have other unspecified impact via a Trojan horse file in the metadata of a remote repository.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1910
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-1910
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-1910
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58533
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/29/4
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/83348

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0250
EPSS Percentile 82.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (4)
baseurl/yum 3.4.3
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
Published Oct 31, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026