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CVE-2012-6532: Zend Framework XEE Vulnerability

May 17, 2022 (updated January 12, 2024)

(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

  • framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2012-02
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-jh4x-4wmf-67pr
  • github.com/zendframework/zf1/commit/1b5e86183a72b7b10b6c89e4f95f08c5da9716db
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6532
  • web.archive.org/web/20131101014013/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2013:115/?name=MDVSA-2013:115

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.0 before 1.11.13, all versions starting from 1.12.0-rc1 before 1.12.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.11.13
  • 1.12.0

Solution

Upgrade to versions 1.11.13, 1.12.0 or above.

Impact 5 MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Weakness

  • CWE-399

Source file

packagist/zendframework/zendframework1/CVE-2012-6532.yml

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