CVE-2013-7416

Exp

canto_curses/guibase.py in Canto Curses before 0.9.0 allows remote feed servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL in a feed.

Published: 2014-12-03 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2013-7416 is rated High Exploit Risk (76.3/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.85%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.63% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-7416

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-7416

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 1.21% 2.85% +1.63%
2 2025-04-08 0.53% 1.21% +0.69%
3 2025-03-30 0.53%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-7416

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-2013-7416

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-7416

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-7416 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (canto), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 10, ignored 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7416

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-7416

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
canto canto_curses <= 0.9.0 cpe:2.3:a:canto:canto_curses:*:alpha5:*:*:*:*:*:*
canto canto_curses 0.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:canto:canto_curses:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canto canto_curses 0.9.0 cpe:2.3:a:canto:canto_curses:0.9.0:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
canto canto_curses 0.9.0 cpe:2.3:a:canto:canto_curses:0.9.0:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*
canto canto_curses 0.9.0 cpe:2.3:a:canto:canto_curses:0.9.0:alpha4:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-7416

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