CVE-2013-7239

memcached: SASL authentication allows wrong credentials to access memcache

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 19, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

memcached before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by sending an invalid request with SASL credentials, then sending another request with incorrect SASL credentials.

Statement

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of memcached package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, since its not compiled with SASL support.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.8
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified