CVE-2013-2155

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% 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-20

Description

Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 does not properly validate length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass the CVE-2009-0217 protection mechanism and spoof a signature via crafted length values to the (1) compareBase64StringToRaw, (2) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault, or (3) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault::verify functions.

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/2013-06/0142.html
http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2155.txt
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/santuario/xml-security-cpp/trunk/xsec/dsig/DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault.cpp?r1=1125752&r2=1493960&pathrev=1493960&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/2013-06/0142.html
http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2155.txt
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/santuario/xml-security-cpp/trunk/xsec/dsig/DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault.cpp?r1=1125752&r2=1493960&pathrev=1493960&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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