Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in OpenSAML

CVE-2013-6440 → View on GitHub ↗ View on CVE.org ↗ View on NVD ↗

Description

The (1) BasicParserPool, (2) StaticBasicParserPool, (3) XML Decrypter, and (4) SAML Decrypter in Shibboleth OpenSAML-Java before 2.6.1 set the expandEntityReferences property to true, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML DOCTYPE declaration.

Basic information

Type: reviewed
Severity: medium
Advisory on GitHub: Open advisory ↗
Repository advisory: —
Source code: Not specified
Published (advisory): 2022-05-13 01:04:00 UTC
Updated: 2023-01-27 05:02:29 UTC
GitHub reviewed: 2022-07-07 23:18:33 UTC
NVD published: 2014-02-14

EPSS Score

Score	Percentile
0.75%	72.51%

CVSS Scores

No CVSS scores in this advisory.

Identifiers

Type	Value
GHSA	GHSA-v723-58jv-2qc4 ↗
CVE	CVE-2013-6440 ↗

CWEs

CWE id	Name
CWE-200	Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable range	First patched	Vulnerable functions
maven	org.opensaml:opensaml	< 2.6.1	2.6.1	—

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence