CVE-2015-3451

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

The _clone function in XML::LibXML before 2.0119 does not properly set the expand_entities option, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via crafted XML data to the (1) new or (2) load_xml function.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Xml-Libxml Project Xml-Libxml: through 2.0118

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0199.html
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SHLOMIF/XML-LibXML-2.0119/Changes
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157448.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157740.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00006.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3243
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:231
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/25/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/30/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74333
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2592-1
https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-xml-libxml/commits/5962fd067580767777e94640b129ae8930a68a30/raw/

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