CVE-2012-4063 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4063?

CVE-2012-4063 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Oct 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Apache Santuario configuration in Eucalyptus before 3.1.1 does not properly restrict applying XML Signature transforms to documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4063?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Eucalyptus Eucalyptus.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4063?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-4063 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-4063 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4063 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2013-4767 Unspecified vulnerability in Eucalyptus before 3.3.2 has unknown impact and attack vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-8520 Missing authorization in Helion Eucalyptus High 8.8
• CVE-2016-8528 Privilege escalation in Helion Eucalyptus High 8.8
• CVE-2015-6861 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5
• CVE-2012-3240 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c3c5-hgp3-g35x.