CVE-2013-1968

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Subversion before 1.6.23 and 1.7.x before 1.7.10 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (FSFS repository corruption) via a newline character in a file name.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Subversion: through 1.6.21; 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5 (+25)
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
Collabnet Subversion: 1.6.17
Opensuse: 11.4

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00015.html
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201305.mbox/%3CCADkdwvRK51pQsybfvsAzjxQJrmVpL0fEa1K4WGkUP9Tzz6KFDw%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201305.mbox/%3CCADkdwvTxsMFeHgc8bK2V-2PrSrKoBffTi8%2BxbHA5tocrrewWew%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0255.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2703
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1893-1
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18986
https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2013-1968-advisory.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00015.html
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201305.mbox/%3CCADkdwvRK51pQsybfvsAzjxQJrmVpL0fEa1K4WGkUP9Tzz6KFDw%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201305.mbox/%3CCADkdwvTxsMFeHgc8bK2V-2PrSrKoBffTi8%2BxbHA5tocrrewWew%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0255.html

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