CVE-2013-4100 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4100?

CVE-2013-4100 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 4 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Cryptocat before 2.0.22 has Remote Denial of Service via username

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4100?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cryptocat Project Cryptocat.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4100?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4100 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-4100 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4100 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-4108 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Cryptocat Project Cryptocat 2.0.18 have unknown impact and attack vectors. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-2259 Code injection in Cryptocat Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-2260 Weak cryptography in Cryptocat Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-4103 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-4102 Weak cryptography in n/a Critical 9.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-r75p-3r7g-wv56.