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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:07:19 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- ModSecurity (X < 2.7.3): Vulnerable
 to XXE attacks

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On 04/03/2013 06:23 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, Breno, vendors,
> 
> ModSecurity upstream has released v2.7.3 version: [1]
> https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/blob/master/CHANGES
> 
> correcting one security flaw (from [2]): "It was reported that the
> XML files parser of ModSecurity, a security module for the Apache
> HTTP Server, was vulnerable to XML External Entity attacks. A
> remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted XML file that,
> when processed might lead to local files disclosure or,
> potentially, excessive resources (memory, CPU) consumption."
> 
> References: [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947842 
> [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464188 [4]
> https://secunia.com/advisories/52847/
> 
> Relevant upstream patch (seems to be the following): [5]
> https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/commit/d4d80b38aa85eccb26e3c61b04d16e8ca5de76fe
>
>  Could you allocate a CVE id [*] for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 
> [*] According to:
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=ModSecurity there
> doesn't seem to have been a CVE id allocated for this issue yet.

Please use CVE-2013-1915 for this issue.


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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