CVE-2014-2683 Several Zend Products Vulnerable to XXE and XEE attacks

What is CVE-2014-2683?

CVE-2014-2683 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Zend Framework 1 (ZF1) before 1.12.4, Zend Framework 2 before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.6, ZendOpenId, ZendRest, ZendService_AudioScrobbler, ZendService_Nirvanix, ZendService_SlideShare, ZendService_Technorati, and ZendService_WindowsAzure before 2.0.2, ZendService_Amazon before 2.0.3, and ZendService_Api before 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) recursive or (2) circular references in an XML entity definition in an XML DOCTYPE declaration, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6532.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2683?

20 open source packages ship an affected version, including zendframework/zendframework1, zendframework/zendopenid and zendframework/zendrest. It affects 10 products.

Products include Zend Zend Framework, Zend Zendopenid, Zend Zendrest, Zend Zendservice Amazon, Zend Zendservice Api, Zend Zendservice Audioscrobbler and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2683?

Upgrade zendframework/zendframework1 to 1.12.4 or later.

Is CVE-2014-2683 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2683 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-5wm2-38q5-5rxv.