CVE-2012-6531

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

(1) Zend_Dom, (2) Zend_Feed, and (3) Zend_Soap in Zend Framework 1.x before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0 do not properly handle SimpleXMLElement classes, which allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files or create TCP connections via an external entity reference in a DOCTYPE element in an XML-RPC request, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3363.

Affected products

Zend Technologies Zend Framework: 1.0.4, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.6.0 (+53)

References

http://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2012-01
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2505
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/26/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/26/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/27/2
https://www.sec-consult.com/files/20120626-0_zend_framework_xxe_injection.txt
http://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2012-01
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2505
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/26/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/26/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/27/2
https://www.sec-consult.com/files/20120626-0_zend_framework_xxe_injection.txt

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