CVE-2013-7291
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2013-7291 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2014-01-13 21:55:05 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
Primary CVSS: v2.0 1.8 from [email protected]
AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS: 0.002070000 probability, percentile 0.429020000 (date 2026-05-01)
Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
AdjacentAccess Complexity
HighAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
NoneIntegrity
NoneAvailability
PartialAV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.15 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | 1.4.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Memcached | Memcached | All | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| ReleaseNotes1417 - memcached - Release notes for Release 1.4.17 - Memcached - Google Project Hosting | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | code.google.com | Patch |
| Memcached verbose mode CVE-2013-7291 Denial of Service Vulnerability | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | |
| Issue 306 - memcached - Crash when performing deletion - Memcached - Google Project Hosting | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | code.google.com | Exploit, Patch |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.