THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2013-6933
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2013-6933

Streaming Media vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
17.4%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
The parseRTSPRequestString function in Live Networks Live555 Streaming Media 2011.08.13 through 2013.11.25, as used in VideoLAN VLC Media Player, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) space or (2) tab character at the beginning of an RTSP message, which triggers an integer underflow, infinite loop, and buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Live555
Affected product
Streaming Media
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
  • CWE-189
Published
2014-01-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 17.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-6933

  • Confirm whether Live555 Streaming Media is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-6933.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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