CVE-2013-4505

low
Published 2013-12-07 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
2.6

Description

The is_this_legal function in mod_dontdothat for Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.13 and 1.8.0 through 1.8.4 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and possibly cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a relative URL in a REPORT request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.7.14-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.7.14-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.7.14-1
debian debiansidfixed1.7.14-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.7.14-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachemod_dontdothat-
apache apachesubversion1.4.0
apache apachesubversion1.4.1
apache apachesubversion1.4.2
apache apachesubversion1.4.3
apache apachesubversion1.4.4
apache apachesubversion1.4.5
apache apachesubversion1.4.6
apache apachesubversion1.5.0
apache apachesubversion1.5.1
apache apachesubversion1.5.2
apache apachesubversion1.5.3
apache apachesubversion1.5.4
apache apachesubversion1.5.5
apache apachesubversion1.5.6
apache apachesubversion1.5.7
apache apachesubversion1.5.8
apache apachesubversion1.6.0
apache apachesubversion1.6.1
apache apachesubversion1.6.2
apache apachesubversion1.6.3
apache apachesubversion1.6.4
apache apachesubversion1.6.5
apache apachesubversion1.6.6
apache apachesubversion1.6.7
apache apachesubversion1.6.8
apache apachesubversion1.6.9
apache apachesubversion1.6.10
apache apachesubversion1.6.11
apache apachesubversion1.6.12
apache apachesubversion1.6.13
apache apachesubversion1.6.14
apache apachesubversion1.6.15
apache apachesubversion1.6.16
apache apachesubversion1.6.17
apache apachesubversion1.6.18
apache apachesubversion1.6.19
apache apachesubversion1.6.20
apache apachesubversion1.6.21
apache apachesubversion1.6.23
apache apachesubversion1.7.0
apache apachesubversion1.7.1
apache apachesubversion1.7.2
apache apachesubversion1.7.3
apache apachesubversion1.7.4
apache apachesubversion1.7.5
apache apachesubversion1.7.6
apache apachesubversion1.7.7
apache apachesubversion1.7.8
apache apachesubversion1.7.9
apache apachesubversion1.7.10
apache apachesubversion1.7.11
apache apachesubversion1.7.12
apache apachesubversion1.8.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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