CVE-2015-8978
Soap Lite Heap-Based XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description
In Soap Lite (aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl) 1.14 and earlier, an example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion copies of the first entity. The amount of computer memory used for handling an external SOAP call would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML.
INFO
Published Date :
Nov. 22, 2016, 5:59 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 2:39 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
3.9
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94487 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 28, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94487 [No Types Assigned] -
Reanalysis by [email protected]
Nov. 23, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:soap_lite_project:soap_lite:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:soap\:\:lite_project:soap\:\:lite:1.14:*:*:*:*:perl:*:* (and previous) -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Nov. 23, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:soap_lite_project:soap_lite:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes No Types Assigned http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes Vendor Advisory Added CWE CWE-399
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-8978 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
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approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2015-8978
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
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0.11 }} 0.00%
score
0.43297
percentile