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CVE-2013-0267

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Privileges portion of the web GUI and the XMLRPC API in Apache VCL 2.3.x before 2.3.2, 2.2.x before 2.2.2 and 2.1 allow remote authenticated users with nodeAdmin, manageGroup, resourceGrant, or userGrant permissions to gain privileges, cause a denial of service, or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging improper data validation.

Affected products

• Apache VCL: from 2.2 through 2.2.2; from 2.3 before 2.3.2; 2.1 — fixed in 2.3.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache VCL 2.3.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/apache/vcl/commit/56c0f040056d6ad8693b20cfd3351367c2ffeabc#diff-2567a5ec9705eb7ac2c984033e06189d
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/632da9e45fce333f21782f1fe10b1d8e77a63811a34fe8e286dedc99%40%3Ccommits.vcl.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/944592973c91cd106a42095271c3f6c7ab9c8d70077b8c6a8d4d92d0%40%3Ccommits.vcl.apache.org%3E
• https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201305.mbox/%3C1658214.8zndv4WEi7%40treebeard%3E
• https://github.com/apache/vcl/commit/56c0f040056d6ad8693b20cfd3351367c2ffeabc#diff-2567a5ec9705eb7ac2c984033e06189d
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/632da9e45fce333f21782f1fe10b1d8e77a63811a34fe8e286dedc99%40%3Ccommits.vcl.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/944592973c91cd106a42095271c3f6c7ab9c8d70077b8c6a8d4d92d0%40%3Ccommits.vcl.apache.org%3E
• https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201305.mbox/%3C1658214.8zndv4WEi7%40treebeard%3E

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