CVE-2013-5488

Cisco Common Services, as used in Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (LMS), Cisco Security Manager, Cisco Unified Service Monitor, and Cisco Unified Operations Manager, does not properly interact with the ActiveMQ component, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via simultaneous TCP sessions, aka Bug IDs CSCuh54766, CSCuh01267, CSCuh95976, and CSCuh95969.

Published: 2013-09-12 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-5488 is rated Moderate Risk (46.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.57%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-5488

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 0.60% 1.57% +0.97%
2 2025-03-30 0.66% 0.60% -0.06%
3 2025-03-29 0.66%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-5488

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-2013-5488

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-5488

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cisco prime_lan_management_solution cpe:2.3:a:cisco:prime_lan_management_solution:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco security_manager cpe:2.3:a:cisco:security_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco unified_operations_manager cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_operations_manager:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco unified_service_monitor cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_service_monitor:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-5488

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