CVE-2013-7085

medium
Published 2013-12-14 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

Description

Uscan in devscripts 2.13.5, when USCAN_EXCLUSION is enabled, allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a whitespace character in a filename.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.13.9
debian debianbullseyefixed2.13.9
debian debianforkyfixed2.13.9
debian debiansidfixed2.13.9
debian debiantrixiefixed2.13.9

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
devscripts_devel_teamdevscripts2.13.5

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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