PT-2012-4367 · Unknown · Universal Feed Parser

Published 2012-05-21 · Updated 2018-07-24 · CVE-2012-2921

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Universal Feed Parser versions prior to 5.1.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, by utilizing a crafted XML ENTITY declaration in a non-ASCII encoded document.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.1.2, update to version 5.1.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XXE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-611

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2921

GHSA-HJF3-R7GW-9RWG

PYSEC-2012-14

Affected Products

Universal Feed Parser

References · 19

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2921 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-2921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2012-14 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2921 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/feedparser/PYSEC-2012-14.yaml · Note
• https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/53654 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120604210617/http://securityfocus.com/bid/53654 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/81701 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150523060531/http://mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2013:118/?name=MDVSA-2013:118 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg · Note