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title: "CVE-2013-7464\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2013-7464

Publication date 8 August 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

## Cvss 3 Severity Score

**8.8 · High**

[Score breakdown](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7464?format=md#impact-score)

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## Description

In csrf-magic before 1.0.4, if $GLOBALS['csrf']['secret'] is not
configured, the Anti-CSRF Token used is predictable and would permit an
attacker to bypass the CSRF protections, because an automatically generated
secret is not used.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7464?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| cacti | 18.10 cosmic | Not affected |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not affected |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not affected |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [pfsmorigo](https://launchpad.net/~pfsmorigo)

CVE-2014-2327 overwrites the affected code and fixes it. Trusty
has this CVE included and it was backported upstream at version 0.8.8c.

## Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:
CVSS v3.0

**Base score**

8.8 · High

* Base metrics

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Attack vector | Network |
  | Attack complexity | Low |
  | Privileges required | None |
  | User interaction | Required |
  | Scope | Unchanged |
  | Confidentiality impact | High |
  | Integrity impact | High |
  | Availability impact | High |
* Scores

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Base score | 8.8 · High |
  | Exploitability score | - |
  | Impact score | - |

**Vector:** CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7464)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7464)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2013-7464)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7464)

### Other references

* <http://csrf.htmlpurifier.org/news/2013/0717-1.0.4-released>
* <http://repo.or.cz/csrf-magic.git/blob/HEAD:/NEWS.txt>
* <http://repo.or.cz/csrf-magic.git/commit/9d2537f70d58b16aeba89779aaf1573b8d618e11>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-7464>