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CVE-2012-6532

Published: Feb 13, 2013Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-399
NVD MITRE
5.0CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.8%
Top 23.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

(1) Zend_Dom, (2) Zend_Feed, (3) Zend_Soap, and (4) Zend_XmlRpc in Zend Framework 1.x before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via recursive or circular references in an XML entity definition in an XML DOCTYPE declaration, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:NI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected Products

n/an/a
zend frameworkzend
LibraryLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
zendframework/zendframework1PackagistOSS Libraries
zendcommercialUSOSS Librariesaka zend framework, zendframework, zend to
packagistpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:115
mandriva.com
http://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2012-02
framework.zend.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6532
nvd.nist.gov
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Timeline

Published
Feb 13, 2013
Last Updated
Apr 29, 2026

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