GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist

GHSA-g43w-98wp-m694 SilverStripe framework XML Quadratic Blowup Attack

MEDIUM Published 2024-05-23 Modified 2024-05-23 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
silverstripe/framework
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-776
Reviewed
2024-05-23

Affected packages

• Packagist silverstripe/framework: < 3.1.12 → fixed in 3.1.12

Description

A low level vulnerability has been found in the SilverStripe framework, where the Quadratic Blowup Attack could potentially be exploited to affect the performance of a site. See http://mashable.com/2014/08/06/wordpress-xml-blowup-dos/ for a writeup.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness

References