zendframework/zendframework · Security
Zendframework vulnerable to XXE/XEE attacks
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qc7w-4567-84wv
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Numerous components utilizing PHP's DOMDocument, SimpleXML, and xml_parse functionality are vulnerable to two types of attacks:
- XML eXternal Entity (XXE) Injection attacks. The above mentioned extensions are insecure by default, allowing external entities to be specified by adding a specific DOCTYPE element to XML documents and strings. By exploiting this vulnerability an application may be coerced to open arbitrary files and/or TCP connections.
- XML Entity Expansion (XEE) vectors, leading to Denial of Service vectors. XEE attacks occur when the XML DOCTYPE declaration includes XML entity definitions that contain either recursive or circular references; this leads to CPU and memory consumption, making Denial of Service exploits trivial to implement.
CWEs
- CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
- CWE-776 · Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
References
- https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/commit/225a8c9f1c3bc08c0bddf22486a8a39ff7186ac1 ↗
- https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/commit/5dab7b8e77741dbba56209616b7815bb04f4c561 ↗
- https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/commit/68d0756c596baeefad0b733b42ef2657d09c7f4e ↗
- https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/commit/bbcf41e676ef6d8f16ea9d6499050bca0787eb6c ↗
- https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/commit/ee7f81cc996fb1c16c7dae23eca9ec013ab74730 ↗
- https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/commit/fbeba98d5a9924b026a5dd98f679143fd6be89ea ↗
- https://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2014-01 ↗
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/zendframework/zendframework/ZF2014-01.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qc7w-4567-84wv ↗