CVE-2013-2038

Exp

The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon termination) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was also reported, but it might not be a vulnerability.

Published: 2014-02-06 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-2038 is rated Exploit Available (59.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.01%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-2038

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-2038

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 3.61% 2.01% -1.60%
2 2025-03-29 2.01% 3.61% +1.60%
3 2025-03-17 — 2.01% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-2038

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-2038

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-2038

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2013-2038 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (gpsd), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2038
suse high — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-2038/
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-2038 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gpsd), 9 status rows across 9 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream): ignored 5, released 2, DNE 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-2038

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-2038

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gpsd_project gpsd <= 3.8 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.1 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.2 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.3 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.4 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.5 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.6 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gpsd_project gpsd 3.7 cpe:2.3:a:gpsd_project:gpsd:3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-2038

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