CVE-2015-4538 (GCVE-0-2015-4538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-04 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
VLAI
Summary
The XML parser in EMC Atmos before 2.2.3.426 and 2.3.x before 2.3.1.0 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033456 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Sep/7 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133405/EMC-A… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2015-09-02 00:00
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