CVE-2013-6440

Severity

5.3

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.

Mitigation

We recommend upgrading to a version of this component that is not vulnerable to this specific issue.

Related links:

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-6440

http://blog.sendsafely.com/post/69590974866/web-based-single-sign-on-and-the-dangers-of-saml

https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/JXT-105

https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/JXT-107

http://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20131213.txt

Project

Category

n/a

Tags

data

functional

Date Disclosed

2014-02-14

Date Discovered

2013-11-04

Apache TomEE 1.7.x

First release:

2014-08-09

CVEs:

95

Support Lifecycle:

Namespace:

javax

1.7.0 1.7.1 1.7.2 1.7.3 1.7.4

Apache TomEE 1.6.x

First release:

2013-11-17

CVEs:

108

Support Lifecycle:

Namespace:

javax

1.6.0 1.6.0.1 1.6.0.2

Apache TomEE 1.5.x

First release:

2012-09-28

CVEs:

119

Support Lifecycle:

Namespace:

javax

1.5.0 1.5.1 1.5.2

Apache TomEE 1.0.x

First release:

2012-04-27

CVEs:

130

Support Lifecycle:

Namespace:

javax

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