Apache Santuario XML Security for Java before 1.5.6, when applying Transforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

Description

Apache Santuario XML Security for Java before 1.5.6, when applying Transforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted Document Type Definitions (DTDs), related to signatures.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

8.9% · top 4.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.apache.santuario:xmlsecGHSA-4p4w-6h54-g885 (opens in a new tab)

References (22)

• RHSA-2014:1728 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:1726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:0170 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0675 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 101169 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0850 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:0195 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2018-15 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• santuario-xmlsecurity-cve20134517-dos(89891) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:1727 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0851 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 20131218 Apache Santuario security advisory CVE-2013-4517 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 1029524 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:0172 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/cve-2013-4517.txt.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:0171 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/124554/Java-XML-Signature-Denial-Of-Service-Attack.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 64437 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• RHSA-2014:1725 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 55639 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [santuario-commits] 20190823 svn commit: r1049214 - in /websites/production/santuario/content: cache/main.pageCache download.html index.html javaindex.html javareleasenotes.html secadv.data/CVE-2019-12400.asc secadv.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [santuario-commits] 20210917 svn commit: r1076843 - in /websites/production/santuario/content: cache/main.pageCache index.html javaindex.html secadv.data/CVE-2021-40690.txt.asc secadv.html (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-4p4w-6h54-g885 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 16:45 UTC.