CVE-2013-7291

Severity: low (CVSS 1.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

memcached before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request that triggers an "unbounded key print" during logging, related to an issue that was "quickly grepped out of the source tree," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179 and CVE-2013-7290.

Affected products

Memcached: through 1.4.16; 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5 (+10)

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64989
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=306
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1417
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64989
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=306
https://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1417

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