CVE-2013-2962

medium

Published 2014-02-06 · 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

4.9

Description

Buffer overflow in the Launcher in IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.4.x before 8.4.0.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (process crash or Admin Console command-stream outage) via unspecified vectors.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	websphere_transformation_extender	`8.4.0.0`
ibm	websphere_transformation_extender	`8.4.0.1`
ibm	websphere_transformation_extender	`8.4.0.2`
ibm	websphere_transformation_extender	`8.4.0.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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