CVE-2013-2070

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

http/modules/ngx_http_proxy_module.c in nginx 1.1.4 through 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 through 1.4.0, when proxy_pass is used with untrusted HTTP servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and obtain sensitive information from worker process memory via a crafted proxy response, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-2028.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 6.0, 7.0
nginx: from 1.1.4 through 1.2.8; from 1.3.9 through 1.4.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105950.html
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/000114.html
http://nginx.org/download/patch.2013.proxy.txt
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/291
http://secunia.com/advisories/55181
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-04.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2721
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/13/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59824
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962525
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84172
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105950.html

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