CVE-2013-5648

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2013-5648 · Published 29/08/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-5648 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting id-software (id), libdigidoc (id).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
id-software id	`= 3.7= 3.7.1`	No fix yet
libdigidoc id	`= 3.6.0.0`	No fix yet

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the handleStartDataFile function in DigiDocSAXParser.c in libdigidoc 3.6.0.0, as used in ID-software before 3.7.2 and other products, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a filename beginning with / (slash) or \ (backslash) in a DDOC file.

References

svnweb.mageia.org/packages/updates/3/libdigidoc/current/SOURCES/libdigidoc-3.6.0.0-security-fix-DataFile-name-tag.patch · Patch
id.ee
bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

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