THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2013-6934
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2013-6934

Streaming Media vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
28.2%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
The parseRTSPRequestString function in Live Networks Live555 Streaming Media 2013.11.26, as used in VideoLAN VLC Media Player, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a space character at the beginning of an RTSP message, which triggers an integer underflow, infinite loop, and buffer overflow. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-6933.
Affected vendor
Live555
Affected product
Streaming Media
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
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 28.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-6934

  • Confirm whether Live555 Streaming Media is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-6934.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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