Information disclosure in php (Alpine package)

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU32705

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1643

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor

Exploit availability: No

Description

The 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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

php (Alpine package): 5.3.3-r0 - 5.3.18-r0

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:alpine:php_alpine_package:5.3.3-r0:*:*:*:*:alpine_linux:*:1.10
• cpe:2.3:a:alpine:php_alpine_package:5.3.3-r2:*:*:*:*:alpine_linux:*:1.10
• cpe:2.3:a:alpine:php_alpine_package:5.3.3-r3:*:*:*:*:alpine_linux:*:1.10

External links

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=0b87ff7e2a869d1cf5d50c94b58397b7f4742096
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=f5b55e3ab4dd0db33562854107a7393e8e75db6d
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=27fdd4129d481f98cce20bd6a6b5053497780a5c
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=655b4d53843b6c3fd82effb4f81fdf08a1bf7fc1

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.