VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2013-2155

CVSS score5.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability5.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-08-20
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 does not properly validate length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass the CVE-2009-0217 protection mechanism and spoof a signature via crafted length values to the (1) compareBase64StringToRaw, (2) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault, or (3) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault::verify functions.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references