XXE attack in MDS PulseNET Enterprise and GE MDS PulseNET - CVE-2018-10613

 

XXE attack in MDS PulseNET Enterprise and GE MDS PulseNET - CVE-2018-10613

Published: June 1, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13123
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10613
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GE
Affected software:
MDS PulseNET Enterprise
GE MDS PulseNET

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform XXE attack on the target system.

The weakness exists due to insufficient validation for external entities. A remote attacker can supply data containing an XML external entities, perform multiple variants of XXE attacks and exfiltrate data from the host Windows platform.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-10613

Install update from vendor's website.

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