CVE-2013-0339
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 21, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 6, 2012
Description
libxml2 through 2.9.1 does not properly handle external entities expansion unless an application developer uses the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity or xmlSetExternalEntityLoader function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption), send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. NOTE: it could be argued that because libxml2 already provides the ability to disable external entity expansion, the responsibility for resolving this issue lies with application developers; according to this argument, this entry should be REJECTed and each affected application would need its own CVE.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- 52662third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2013:1627vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20130221 CVE Guidance for Libraries and Resource-Consumption DoSmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20130221 CVEs for libxml2 and expat internal and external XML entity expansionmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20131029 Re: CVE Request: libxml2 external parsed entities issuemailing-list
- [oss-security] 20131029 Re: CVE Request: libxml2 external parsed entities issuemailing-list
- [oss-security] 20131028 Re: CVE Request: libxml2 external parsed entities issuemailing-list
- USN-1904-2vendor-advisory
- USN-1904-1vendor-advisory
- DSA-2652vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915149
- 54172third-party-advisory
- 55568third-party-advisory
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=4629ee02ac649c27f9c0cf98ba017c6b5526070f
- [oss-security] 20130412 Re-evaluating expat/libxml2 CVE assignmentsmailing-list
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