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CVE-2013-2210
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 6.0% 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
Heap-based buffer overflow in the XML Signature Reference functionality in Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed XPointer expressions. NOTE: this is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-2154.
Affected products
- Apache Xml Security For C++: through 1.7.1; 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0 (+7)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2013-06/0216.html
- http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2210.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2717
- 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/2013-06/0216.html
- http://santuario.apache.org/secadv.data/CVE-2013-2210.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2717
- 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
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