Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in PHP SOAP Parser

Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in PHP SOAP Parser

CVE-2013-1643 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.23 and 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP WSDL file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the soap_xmlParseFile and soap_xmlParseMemory functions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-1824.

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