CVE-2012-6532 Zend Framework XEE Vulnerability

What is CVE-2012-6532?

CVE-2012-6532 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 13 Feb 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

(1) Zend_Dom, (2) Zend_Feed, (3) Zend_Soap, and (4) Zend_XmlRpc in Zend Framework 1.x before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via recursive or circular references in an XML entity definition in an XML DOCTYPE declaration, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-6532?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including zendframework/zendframework1. It affects 1 product.

Products include Zend Zend Framework.

How do I fix CVE-2012-6532?

Upgrade zendframework/zendframework1 to a fixed version for your release line: 1.11.13 or 1.12.0.

Is CVE-2012-6532 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-6532 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2020-29312 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-1555 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2015-1786 Zend Framework CSRF Vulnerability High 8.8
• CVE-2015-7503 Zend Framework Information Disclosure High 7.5
• CVE-2014-2685 Auth bypass in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-jh4x-4wmf-67pr, UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6532.