QID 995690

Date Published: 2023-10-25

QID 995690: PHP (Composer) Security Update for zendframework/zendframework1 (GHSA-5wm2-38q5-5rxv)

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.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.2 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.
  • Solution
    Refer to Github security advisory GHSA-5wm2-38q5-5rxv for updates and patch information.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 995690

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    GHSA-5wm2-38q5-5rxv zendframework/zendframework1 URL Logo github.com/advisories/GHSA-5wm2-38q5-5rxv