CVE-2013-5648

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the handleStartDataFile function in DigiDocSAXParser.c in libdigidoc 3.6.0.0, as used in ID-software before 3.7.2 and other products, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a filename beginning with / (slash) or \ (backslash) in a DDOC file.

Affected products

Id-Software: 3.7, 3.7.1
Id Libdigidoc: 3.6.0.0

References

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/updates/3/libdigidoc/current/SOURCES/libdigidoc-3.6.0.0-security-fix-DataFile-name-tag.patch?revision=472660&view=markup
http://www.id.ee/?lang=en&id=34283#3_7_2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11100
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002299
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/updates/3/libdigidoc/current/SOURCES/libdigidoc-3.6.0.0-security-fix-DataFile-name-tag.patch?revision=472660&view=markup
http://www.id.ee/?lang=en&id=34283#3_7_2
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11100
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002299

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