CVE-2013-2160

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 32.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The streaming XML parser in Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted XML with a large number of (1) elements, (2) attributes, (3) nested constructs, and possibly other vectors.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5 (+15)

References

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WSTX-285
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WSTX-287
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1028.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1437.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929197
https://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2013-2160.txt.asc
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E

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