# CVE-2013-5488: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service via memory consumption in Cisco Common Services by opening simultaneous TCP sessions.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Sep 2013
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x4cm-7ff7-8m4h

## What is CVE-2013-5488?

CVE-2013-5488 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Sep 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-5488?

It affects 4 products.


Products: Cisco Prime Lan Management Solution, Cisco Security Manager, Cisco Unified Operations Manager, Cisco Unified Service Monitor.

## How do I fix CVE-2013-5488?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-5488 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2013-5488 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5488 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2012-6392](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-6392/): Auth bypass in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2016-1360](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-1360/): Hardcoded credentials in n/a (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2017-12225](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-12225/): Auth bypass in Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2015-0594](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-0594/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2013-5482](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5482/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-5488 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2013-5488 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 12 Sep 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5488 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5488/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5488/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-5488
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5488
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-5488

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