CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-3451
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-611
Description
The _clone function in XML::LibXML before 2.0119 does not properly set the expand_entities option, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via crafted XML data to the (1) new or (2) load_xml function.
Affected configurations
• xml-libxml project xml-libxml (<= 2.0118)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.04
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 20
• fedoraproject fedora 21
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0199.html Third Party Advisory
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0119/Changes Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157448.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157740.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00006.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3243 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:231 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/25/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/30/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74333 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2592-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-xml-libxml/commits/5962fd067580767777e94640b129ae8930a68a30/raw/ Vendor Advisory
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0199.html Third Party Advisory
- http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0119/Changes Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157448.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157740.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00006.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3243 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:231 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/25/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/30/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74333 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2592-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-xml-libxml/commits/5962fd067580767777e94640b129ae8930a68a30/raw/ Vendor Advisory