PT-2016-4082 · Soap::Lite+1 · Soap Lite+1

Published 2016-11-22 · Updated 2017-08-09 · CVE-2015-8978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Soap Lite versions 1.14 and earlier

Description The issue allows an example attack where an attacker defines multiple XML entities, each consisting of multiple instances of the previous entity. This can lead to excessive computer memory usage when handling an external SOAP call, potentially exceeding the available memory for the process parsing the XML.

Recommendations For Soap Lite versions 1.14 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8978

DLA-723-1

MGASA-2017-0252

SUSE-SU-2016:3052-1

SUSE-SU-2016_3052-1

Affected Products

Soap Lite

Suse

References · 20

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8978 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:3052-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8978 · Security Note
• http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0252.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8978.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94487 · Note
• https://suse.com/support/update/announcement/2016/suse-su-20163052-1 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19857 · Note