Security Advisory SA49900 - CakePHP XML External Entities Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA49900

CakePHP XML External Entities Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA49900

Release Date

2012-07-17

Last Update

2012-09-04

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

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Software:

CakePHP 2.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2012-4399 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Pawel Wylecial has reported a vulnerability in CakePHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing external XML entities and can be exploited to e.g. disclose local files.

The vulnerability is reported in the versions prior to 2.1.5 and 2.2.1.

Solution
Update to version 2.1.5 or 2.2.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Pawel Wylecial.

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Original Advisory
CakePHP:
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/markstory/2012/07/14/security_release_-_cakephp_2_1_5_2_2_1
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/6c905411bac66caad5e220a70e3d561b8a648507

Pawel Wylecial:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-07/0102.html

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