CVE-2012-2997 (GCVE-0-2012-2997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-21 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:50
VLAI
Summary
XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in sam/admin/vpe2/public/php/server.php in F5 BIG-IP 10.0.0 through 10.2.4 and 11.0.0 through 11.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2013-01-22 00:00
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