Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2013-1643 |
CWE-ID | CWE-200 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
PHP Universal components / Libraries / Scripting languages |
Vendor | PHP Group |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU32705
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1643
CWE-ID:
CWE-200 - Information exposure
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.23 and 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP WSDL file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the soap_xmlParseFile and soap_xmlParseMemory functions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-1824.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsPHP: 5.3.0 - 5.3.22
External linkshttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702221
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=8e76d0404b7f664ee6719fd98f0483f0ac4669d6
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00006.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1307.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1615.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55078
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2639
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:114
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1761-1
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459904
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918187
http://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0101
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.