Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 uses weak pseudo generated numbers when /dev/urandom is unavailable, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the numbers.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-4442 is rated Moderate Risk (44.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.65%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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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 | 2025-05-23 | 0.77% | 0.65% | -0.11% |
| 2 | 2025-03-30 | 1.49% | 0.77% | -0.73% |
| 3 | 2025-03-29 | — | 1.49% | — |
Full EPSS history (8 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2013-4442 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pwgen), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4442 |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2013-4442 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (pwgen), 21 status rows across 21 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 13, ignored 6, DNE 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4442 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| pwgen_project | pwgen | <= 2.06 | cpe:2.3:a:pwgen_project:pwgen:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |