CVE-2013-4147

Exp

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in Yet Another Radius Daemon (YARD RADIUS) 1.1.2 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a request in the (1) log_msg function in log.c or (2) version or (3) build_version function in version.c.

Published: 2013-08-09 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-4147 is rated High Exploit Risk (71/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.81%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: 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-2013-4147

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
38672 exploit_db edb 2013-06-30 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-4147

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 2026-06-15 10.57% 3.81% -6.75%
2 2025-03-30 11.05% 10.57% -0.49%
3 2025-03-29 11.05%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-4147

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-4147

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-4147

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-4147 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (yardradius), 17 status rows across 17 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 11, ignored 5, needed 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4147

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2013-4147

Comment: Per: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/145 "Software name : YardRadius Version : 1.1.2-4"

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-4147

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
yard_radius_project yard_radius 1.1.2-4 cpe:2.3:a:yard_radius_project:yard_radius:1.1.2-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-4147

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