CVE-2013-2765 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 13.7% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
The ModSecurity module before 2.7.4 for the Apache HTTP Server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, process crash, and disk consumption) via a POST request with a large body and a crafted Content-Type header.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 13.72% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-476 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2013-07-15 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| apache | http server |
| opensuse | opensuse |
| trustwave | modsecurity |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | ModSecurity - Remote Null Pointer Dereference | 2013-05-31 |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0125.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30900019
- http://www.modsecurity.org/
- http://www.shookalabs.com/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967615
- https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/commit/0840b13612a0b7ef1ce7441cf811dcfc6b463fba
- https://github.com/shookalabs/exploits/blob/master/modsecurity_cve_2013_2765_check.py
- https://raw.github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/master/CHANGES
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-05/0125.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30900019
- http://www.modsecurity.org/
- http://www.shookalabs.com/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967615
- https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/commit/0840b13612a0b7ef1ce7441cf811dcfc6b463fba
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