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CVE-2013-2154

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-08-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the XML Signature Reference functionality (xsec/dsig/DSIGReference.cpp) in Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed XPointer expressions, probably related to the DSIGReference::getURIBaseTXFM function.

Affected products

• Apache Xml Security For C++: through 1.7.0; 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0 (+6)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2013-06/0141.html
• http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2154.txt
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/santuario/xml-security-cpp/trunk/xsec/dsig/DSIGReference.cpp?r1=1125514&r2=1493959&pathrev=1493959&diff_format=h
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2710
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/680e6938b6412e26d5446054fd31de2011d33af11786b989127d1cc3%40%3Ccommits.santuario.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1c07a561426ec5579073046ad7f4207cdcef452bb3100abaf908e0cd%40%3Ccommits.santuario.apache.org%3E
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2018-15
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2013-06/0141.html
• http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2154.txt
• http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/santuario/xml-security-cpp/trunk/xsec/dsig/DSIGReference.cpp?r1=1125514&r2=1493959&pathrev=1493959&diff_format=h
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2710
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/680e6938b6412e26d5446054fd31de2011d33af11786b989127d1cc3%40%3Ccommits.santuario.apache.org%3E

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