Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 5.0

CVE-2013-2160 json

Missing XML Validation in Apache CXF

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-254q-rp36-v2m8 , EUVD-2022-1906

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
32.3%
EPSS 32.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The streaming XML parser in Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted XML with a large number of (1) elements, (2) attributes, (3) nested constructs, and possibly other vectors.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs 2.5.10, 2.6.7, 2.7.4

Is CVE-2013-2160 in your dependencies? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-2160 updated cvss 5.0

apache-cxf: Multiple denial of service flaws in the StAX parser

  • Red Hat Fuse ESB Enterprise 7.1.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1028
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1185
  • Red Hat JBoss Portal Platform 6.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1437
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 jbossws-cxf
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-26710)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

32.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-26710 Apache CXF < 2.5.10/2.6.7/2.7.4 - Denial of Service dos, 2013-07-09

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs
>=2.5.0, <2.5.10
>=2.6.0, <2.6.7
>=2.7.0, <2.7.4
2.5.10
2.6.7
2.7.4

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.