CVE-2013-2596

CRITICALNVD 7.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-09-15), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2013-2538 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 3.2%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Integer overflow in the fb_mmap function in drivers/video/fbmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9, as used in a certain Motorola build of Android 4.1.2 and other products, allows local users to create a read-write memory mapping for the entirety of kernel memory, and consequently gain privileges, via crafted /dev/graphics/fb0 mmap2 system calls, as demonstrated by the Motochopper pwn program.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
3.2%
EPSS %ILE
88th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
3.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fc9bbca8f650e5f738af8806317c0a041a48ae4a · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2596

Published

April 13, 2013

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.

Patch Availability(5)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatkernel-0:2.6.18-409.el52016-03-15redhat
redhatkernel-0:2.6.32-358.59.1.el62015-04-14redhat
redhatkernel-0:2.6.32-431.53.2.el62015-04-07redhat
redhatkernel-0:2.6.32-220.60.2.el62015-03-17redhat
redhatkernel-0:2.6.32-504.el62014-10-13redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 3.9-1: fixed in 3.9-1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 3.9-1: fixed in 3.9-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 3.9-1: fixed in 3.9-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux—
  • every version up to 3.9-1: fixed in 3.9-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 29× in last 7d / 207× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,891 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,791 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 00:55 UTCOSV refresh
  2. 2026-11-01 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-01 20:20 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-01 20:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-11-01 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  6. 2026-10-31 21:50 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-31 21:50 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-31 21:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  9. 2026-10-31 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  10. 2026-10-30 23:20 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-30 23:20 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-30 23:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  13. 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  14. 2026-10-30 00:50 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-30 00:50 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-30 00:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  17. 2026-10-29 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  18. 2026-10-29 02:20 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-29 02:20 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-29 02:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  21. 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  22. 2026-10-28 03:50 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-28 03:50 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-28 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-27 05:20 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-27 05:20 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-27 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  4. 2026-10-26 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  5. 2026-10-26 06:50 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-26 06:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  7. 2026-10-25 20:09 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 08:17 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-25 08:17 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-25 08:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  12. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  13. 2026-10-24 09:47 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-24 09:47 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-24 09:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  16. 2026-10-23 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  17. 2026-10-23 11:16 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-23 11:16 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-23 11:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  20. 2026-10-22 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  21. 2026-10-22 12:46 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-22 12:46 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-22 12:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  24. 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  25. 2026-10-21 14:16 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-21 14:16 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-21 14:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  28. 2026-10-20 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  29. 2026-10-20 15:47 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-20 15:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  31. 2026-10-19 17:15 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-19 17:15 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-19 17:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  34. 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 88th percentile
  35. 2026-10-18 18:45 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-10-18 18:45 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-18 18:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  38. 2026-10-18 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  39. 2026-10-18 11:20 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-17 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-17 20:15 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-17 20:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  43. 2026-10-17 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  44. 2026-10-16 21:43 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-16 21:43 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-16 21:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  47. 2026-10-16 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  48. 2026-10-15 23:12 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-10-15 23:12 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-15 23:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  51. 2026-10-15 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  52. 2026-10-15 00:41 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-10-15 00:41 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-15 00:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  55. 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  56. 2026-10-14 02:08 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-10-14 02:08 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-14 02:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  59. 2026-10-13 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  60. 2026-10-13 03:37 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-13 03:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  62. 2026-10-12 21:25 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-12 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  64. 2026-10-12 05:07 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-12 05:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  66. 2026-10-12 00:55 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-10-12 00:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  68. 2026-10-11 20:41 UTCEG score recompute
  69. 2026-10-11 20:41 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-11 20:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  71. 2026-10-11 16:26 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-10-11 16:26 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-11 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg37-4cgv-wc3c · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  74. 2026-10-11 13:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 3.2% · 87th percentile
  75. 2026-10-11 12:15 UTCEG score recompute

Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoChiikezoe/libfb_mem_exploit
    Published Jul 16, 2013

    CVE-2013-2596 exploit for android

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2013-2596?
CVE-2013-2596 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 13, 2013. Integer overflow in the fb_mmap function in drivers/video/fbmem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9, as used in a certain Motorola build of Android 4.1.2 and other products, allows local users to create a read-write memory mapping for the entirety of kernel memory, and consequently gain privileges,…
When was CVE-2013-2596 made public?
CVE-2013-2596 was made public on April 9, 2013: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on April 13, 2013. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 21, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2013-2596 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2013-2596 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 15, 2022, affecting Linux Kernel. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2013-2596?
CVE-2013-2596 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2013-2596?
CVE-2013-2596 affects Linux Kernel. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2013-2596?
A fix for CVE-2013-2596 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2013-2596 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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