Is CVE-2013-4590 being actively exploited?

CVE-2013-4590 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2013-4590?

CVE-2013-4590 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2013-4590

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 9.5%EU EUVD

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.39, 7.x before 7.0.50, and 8.x before 8.0.0-RC10 allows attackers to obtain "Tomcat internals" information by leveraging the presence of an untrusted web application with a context.xml, web.xml, *.jspx, *.tagx, or *.tld XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Key facts

CVSS score: 4.3 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-200
EPSS score: 9.5% (95th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2022-3142)
Published: February 26, 2014
NVD last modified: October 9, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-3142 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on October 9, 2026.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

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References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0148.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2(Mailing List)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59036(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59722(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59724(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59873(Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549528(Issue Tracking)
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1549529(Issue Tracking)
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1558828(Issue Tracking)
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html(Vendor Advisory)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21667883(Third Party Advisory)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675886(Third Party Advisory)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21677147(Third Party Advisory)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21678231(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3530(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:052(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:084(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65768(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0008.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069911(Issue Tracking)
https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04851013
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37220405a377c0182d2afdbc36461c4783b2930fbeae3a17f1333113%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/39ae1f0bd5867c15755a6f959b271ade1aea04ccdc3b2e639dcd903b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b84ad1258a89de5c9c853c7f2d3ad77e5b8b2930be9e132d5cef6b95%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b8a1bf18155b552dcf9a928ba808cbadad84c236d85eab3033662cfb%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r03c597a64de790ba42c167efacfa23300c3d6c9fe589ab87fe02859c%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r587e50b86c1a96ee301f751d50294072d142fd6dc08a8987ae9f3a9b%40%3Cdev.tomcat.apache.org%3E

Last updated October 11, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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