CVE-2013-7038

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The MHD_http_unescape function in libmicrohttpd before 0.9.32 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors that trigger an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

GNU Libmicrohttpd: through 0.9.31; 0.9.16, 0.9.17, 0.9.18, 0.9.19, 0.9.20, 0.9.21 (+9)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/55903
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-01.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/09/11
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64138
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493450
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039384
https://gnunet.org/svn/libmicrohttpd/ChangeLog
http://secunia.com/advisories/55903
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-01.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/09/11
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64138
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493450

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