XML External Entity injection in librsvg - CVE-2013-1881

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XML External Entity injection in librsvg - CVE-2013-1881

Published: February 1, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU24818
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1881
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.


Affected software

librsvg
librsvg (Alpine package)
gtk+3.0 (Alpine package)
zeromq (Alpine package)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
SUSE Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2013-1881

Install updates from vendor's website.

librsvg - update to 2.39.0
librsvg (Alpine package) - update to 2.37.0-r1
gtk+3.0 (Alpine package) - update to 3.8.9-r0
zeromq (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.5-r0

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