CVE-2013-2172

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% 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-310

Description

jcp/xml/dsig/internal/dom/DOMCanonicalizationMethod.java in Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 1.4.x before 1.4.8 and 1.5.x before 1.5.5 allows context-dependent attackers to spoof an XML Signature by using the CanonicalizationMethod parameter to specify an arbitrary weak "canonicalization algorithm to apply to the SignedInfo part of the Signature."

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Santuario: 1.4.7, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1207.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1208.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1209.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1217.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1218.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1219.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1220.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1375.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1437.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1853.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0212.html
http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2172.txt.asc

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