XML External Entity injection in PHP - CVE-2013-1824
Published: February 13, 2023 / Updated: June 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110277
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2013-1824
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
PHP
PHP
Software vendor:
PHP Group
PHP Group
Description
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.
External links
- 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