CVE-2013-2070

medium

Published 2013-07-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.8

Description

http/modules/ngx_http_proxy_module.c in nginx 1.1.4 through 1.2.8 and 1.3.0 through 1.4.0, when proxy_pass is used with untrusted HTTP servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and obtain sensitive information from worker process memory via a crafted proxy response, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-2028.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.4.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.4.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.4.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.4.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.4.1-1`
debian	6.0	affected
debian	7.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
f5	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"1.1.4","endIncluding":"1.2.8"}`
nginx	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"1.1.4","endIncluding":"1.2.8"}`
nginx	nginx	`{"startIncluding":"1.3.9","endIncluding":"1.4.0"}`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.