Is CVE-2013-0222 being actively exploited?

CVE-2013-0222 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2013-0222?

CVE-2013-0222 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 2.1 (LOW).

CVE-2013-0222

LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD

The SUSE coreutils-i18n.patch for GNU coreutils allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a long string to the uniq command, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow in the alloca function.

Key facts

CVSS score: 2.1 (v2.0)
Severity: LOW
CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-119
EPSS score: 0.4% (33th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2013-0256)
Published: November 23, 2013
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-0256 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

opensuse / opensuse
opensuse / opensuse
opensuse / opensuse
redhat / enterprise linux

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1652.html(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796243(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903465(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/149348#diff_headline_coreutils-i18n-patch_diff_action_0_submit_0_19(Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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