Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-6473

Title: Linuxfoundation Cups-Filters RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-6473.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 14, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

13.72%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-6473: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the urftopdf filter in cups-filters 1.0.25 before 1.0.47 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large (1) page or (2) line in a URF file.

Impacted Vendors

linuxfoundation 1

openprinting 1

Reference Links

http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7175 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66601 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2143-1 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741333 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027547 http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7175 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66601 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2143-1 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741333 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027547

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-6473 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 14, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.