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medium 6.4

CVE-2014-2681 json

Several Zend Products Vulnerable to XXE and XEE attacks

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-43xg-87xw-jpv8 , EUVD-2022-2288

cvss
6.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Zend Framework 1 (ZF1) before 1.12.4, Zend Framework 2 before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.6, ZendOpenId, ZendRest, ZendService_AudioScrobbler, ZendService_Nirvanix, ZendService_SlideShare, ZendService_Technorati, and ZendService_WindowsAzure before 2.0.2, ZendService_Amazon before 2.0.3, and ZendService_Api before 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, and possibly cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML External Entity (XXE) attack. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-5657.

Patch / fix

  • packagist zendframework/zendframework1 1.12.4
  • packagist zendframework/zendopenid 2.0.2
  • packagist zendframework/zendrest 2.0.2
  • packagist zendframework/zendservice-audioscrobbler 2.0.2
  • packagist zendframework/zendservice-nirvanix 2.0.2
  • packagist zendframework/zendservice-slideshare 2.0.2
  • packagist zendframework/zendservice-technorati 2.0.2
  • packagist zendframework/zendservice-windowsazure 2.0.2
  • packagist zendframework/zendservice-amazon 2.0.3
  • packagist zendframework/zendservice-api 1.0.0
  • zend zend_framework 1.12.4, 2.1.6, 2.2.6

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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-2014-2681 updated cvss 6.4

php-ZendFramework: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) and XML Entity Expansion (XEE) flaws fixed in 1.12.4, 2.1.6, and 2.2.6 (ZF2014-01)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

Exploit prediction

2.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist zendframework/zendframework1
<1.12.4
1.12.4
packagist zendframework/zendopenid
<2.0.2
2.0.2
packagist zendframework/zendrest
<2.0.2
2.0.2
packagist zendframework/zendservice-audioscrobbler
<2.0.2
2.0.2
packagist zendframework/zendservice-nirvanix
<2.0.2
2.0.2
packagist zendframework/zendservice-slideshare
<2.0.2
2.0.2
packagist zendframework/zendservice-technorati
<2.0.2
2.0.2
packagist zendframework/zendservice-windowsazure
<2.0.2
2.0.2
packagist zendframework/zendservice-amazon
<2.0.3
2.0.3
packagist zendframework/zendservice-api
<1.0.0
1.0.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-19 Data Processing Errors
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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