CVE-2013-7459

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

9.58% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 95.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Important. 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.

Published

2017-02-15 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 18:09Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-12-27

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

b29a4cdd6ccfa226184fb18417a875ae2c201b69982c142b0280510ead188991

• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409754x_refsource_CONFIRM
• pony7.frhttps://pony7.fr/ctf:public:32c3:cryptmsgx_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161227 Re: Buffer overflow in pycryptohttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/27/8mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2017-7c569d396bhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RJ37R2YLX56YZABFNAOWV4VTHTGYREAE/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• github.comhttps://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/176x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com95122http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95122vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2017-08207fe48bhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6BWNADPLKDBBQBUT3P75W7HAJCE7M3B/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-14https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-14vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• github.comhttps://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/commit/8dbe0dc3eea5c689d4f76b37b93fe216cf1f00d4x_refsource_CONFIRM