CVE-2013-4173

Directory traversal vulnerability in the trend-data daemon (xymond_rrd) in Xymon 4.x before 4.3.12 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the host name in a "drophost" command.

Published: 2013-10-11 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-4173 is rated Moderate Risk (51.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.83%). EPSS rose +2.12% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-4173

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 0.71% 2.83% +2.12%
2 2025-09-27 1.44% 0.71% -0.73%
3 2025-03-30 — 1.44% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-4173

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/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:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
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.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-4173

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-4173

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2013-4173 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (xymon), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4173
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-4173 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xymon), 17 status rows across 17 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 11, not-affected 4, DNE 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4173

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-4173

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
xymon xymon <= 4.3.1 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.2.2 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.2.3 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xymon xymon 4.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:xymon:xymon:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-4173

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