CVE-2013-4505

low
Published 2013-12-07 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
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
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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

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.7.14-1
sid Fixed 1.7.14-1
forky Fixed 1.7.14-1
bullseye Fixed 1.7.14-1
bookworm Fixed 1.7.14-1

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

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

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