SB2023021350 - XML External Entity injection in PHP
Published: February 13, 2023 Updated: June 8, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023021350
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) XML External Entity injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1824)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.22 and 5.4.x before 5.4.12 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2013/CVE-2013-1824.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918187
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=afe98b7829d50806559acac9b530acb8283c3bf4
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=188c196d4da60bdde9190d2fc532650d17f7af2d