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Conclusion & alert: CVE-2019-13464 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.1/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.24%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2026-02-01 | 0.42% | 0.24% | -0.18% |
| 2 | 2025-11-21 | 0.24% | 0.42% | +0.18% |
| 3 | 2025-11-18 | — | 0.24% | — |
Full EPSS history (11 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 3.0 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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low | CVE-2019-13464 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (modsecurity-crs), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13464 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2019-13464 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (modsecurity, modsecurity-crs), 38 status rows across 19 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 17, not-affected 13, DNE 5, needed 1, needs-triage 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13464 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| modsecurity | owasp_modsecurity_core_rule_set | 3.0.2 | cpe:2.3:a:modsecurity:owasp_modsecurity_core_rule_set:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/issues/1386 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/SpiderLabs/owasp-modsecurity-crs/pull/1391 | Third Party Advisory |