CVE-2013-1643

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.23 and 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP WSDL file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the soap_xmlParseFile and soap_xmlParseMemory functions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-1824.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.3.21; 1.0, 2.0, 2.0b10, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 (+130)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702221
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e76d0404b7f664ee6719fd98f0483f0ac4669d6
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00006.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1307.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1615.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55078
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2639
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:114
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

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