CVE-2013-7291: Memcached

Low severity, CVSS 1.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

memcached before 1.4.17, when running in verbose mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request that triggers an "unbounded key print" during logging, related to an issue that was "quickly grepped out of the source tree," a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-0179 and CVE-2013-7290.

Affected products

• Memcached Memcached: up to and including 1.4.16; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; …

Published 2014-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.