National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6531
Original release date:02/13/2013
Last revised:03/04/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
(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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120627 Re: XXE in Zend
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120626 Re: XXE in Zend
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120626 XXE in Zend
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2505
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2012-01
Type: Advisory