XXE in Trustwave Modsecurity
CVE-2013-1915
ModSecurity before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability.
Vulnerability class: XXE (XML External Entity)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.042 (90.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.042 · newest: 0.042 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Trustwave Modsecurity
- Debian Linux — versions 6.0, 7.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 17, 18, 19
- openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.2, 12.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/commit/d4d80b38aa85eccb26e3c61b04d16e8ca5de76… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/03/7 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/58810 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101911.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101898.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/blob/master/CHANGES (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)