01 Record
CVE-2013-3587
The HTTPS protocol, as used in unspecified web applications, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: certcc
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The HTTPS protocol, as used in unspecified web applications, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.04% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-02-21 17:11Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 16:14Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-05-21
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6ede724c1d446d31c6fb1dc89eae2cf08732d899ae1baef7e06a0f9b44b70547
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- breachattack.comhttp://breachattack.com/
- security.stackexchange.comhttp://security.stackexchange.com/questions/20406/is-http-compression-safe#20407
- slashdot.orghttp://slashdot.org/story/13/08/05/233216
- www.iacr.orghttp://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/archive/2002/FSE/3091/3091.pdf
- www.blackhat.comhttps://www.blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Prado
- github.comhttp://github.com/meldium/breach-mitigation-rails
- www.djangoproject.comhttps://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/aug/06/breach-and-django/
- www.kb.cert.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/987798
- hackerone.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/254895
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995168
- support.f5.comhttps://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14634
- lists.apache.org[httpd-dev] 20210409 GSOC project Idea- fix for CVE-2013-3587https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7f0e9cfd166934172d43ca4c272b8bdda4a343036229d9937affd1e1%40%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E