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CVE-2013-1824

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.22 and 5.4.x before 5.4.12 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.

Affected products

• macOS: from 10.0.0 before 10.8.5 — fixed in 10.8.5
• PHP: before 5.3.22; from 5.4.0 before 5.4.12 — fixed in 5.3.22, 5.4.12
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5, 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: macOS 10.8.5; PHP 5.3.22, 5.4.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=188c196d4da60bdde9190d2fc532650d17f7af2d
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=afe98b7829d50806559acac9b530acb8283c3bf4
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
• http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2013/CVE-2013-1824.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918187
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=188c196d4da60bdde9190d2fc532650d17f7af2d
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=afe98b7829d50806559acac9b530acb8283c3bf4
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
• http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2013/CVE-2013-1824.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918187

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