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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, and (3) Zend_Soap in Zend Framework 1.x before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0 do not properly handle SimpleXMLElement classes, which allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files or create TCP connections via an external entity reference in a DOCTYPE element in an XML-RPC request, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3363.

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

0.334%
(72nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-6531

GHSA ID

GHSA-h5p3-7mg6-hgj4

Source code

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