CVE-2018-13415

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-13415
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-08-13 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-18 17:46:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5154, the XML parsing engine for SSDP/UPnP functionality is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Processing (XXE) attack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can use this vulnerability to: (1) Access arbitrary files from the filesystem with the same permission as the user account running Plex, (2) Initiate SMB connections to capture a NetNTLM challenge/response and crack to cleartext password, or (3) Initiate SMB connections to relay a NetNTLM challenge/response and achieve Remote Command Execution in Windows domains.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-611

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5154 All All All
Application Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5154 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Full Disclosure: (CVE-2018-13415) Out-of-Band XXE in Plex Media Server FULLDISC seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Plex Media Server 1.13.2.5154 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection - XML webapps Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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