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Zend Framework XEE Vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 12, 2024

Package

composer zendframework/zendframework1 (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 1.0, < 1.11.13
>= 1.12.0-rc1, < 1.12.0

Patched versions

1.11.13
1.12.0

Description

(1) Zend_Dom, (2) Zend_Feed, (3) Zend_Soap, and (4) Zend_XmlRpc in Zend Framework 1.x before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via recursive or circular references in an XML entity definition in an XML DOCTYPE declaration, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 13, 2013
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jan 12, 2024
Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.235%
(62nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-6532

GHSA ID

GHSA-jh4x-4wmf-67pr

Source code

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