Facebook Pays $33,500 Bounty for Major Code Execution Flaw

Remote code execution bugs are the gold nuggets of security research. They’re the ones that researchers stay up all night looking for and they’re the kind of vulnerabilities that often are worth big money, whether it’s from a vulnerability broker, a government agency or a bug bounty program. For...

Facebook Hacker received $33,500 reward for Remote code execution vulnerability

Facebook has paid out its largest Bug Bounty ever of $33,500 to a Brazilian security researcher for discovering and reporting a critical Remote code execution vulnerability, which potentially allows the full control of a server. In September, 'Reginaldo Silva' found an XML External Entity Expansi...

CVE-2013-6447

The CVE-2013-6447 issue affects Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit 2.4.0, where the seam-remoting components (ExecutionHandler, PollHandler, SubscriptionHandler) unmarshalled untrusted XML and processed external entities, enabling an attacker to read files on the server. Red Hat’s advisory RHSA-2014...

CVE-2013-0340

expat before version 2.4.0 does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

CVE-2013-0339

libxml2 through 2.9.1 does not properly handle external entities expansion unless an application developer uses the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity or xmlSetExternalEntityLoader function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0340

expat before version 2.4.0 does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

CVE-2013-0340

expat 2.1.0 and earlier does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0339

libxml2 through 2.9.1 does not properly handle external entities expansion unless an application developer uses the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity or xmlSetExternalEntityLoader function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers,...

CVE-2012-2997

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...

Xxe

libxml2 through 2.9.1 does not properly handle external entities expansion unless an application developer uses the xmlSAX2ResolveEntity or xmlSetExternalEntityLoader function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers,...

Xxe

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...

CVE-2012-2997

CVE-2012-2997 is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability affecting F5 BIG-IP components, specifically in sam/admin/vpe2/public/php/server.php. The issue allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files on the device by submitting a crafted XML file. Affected versions, per SEC Consult ...

PSF-2014-1 CVE-2013-0340 Billion Laughs fixed in Expat 2.4.0

expat 2.1.0 and earlier does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

CVE-2012-2997

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...

CVE-2013-0340

expat before version 2.4.0 does not properly handle entities expansion unless an application developer uses the XMLSetEntityDeclHandler function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or read arbitrary files via a...

PT-2014-1964 · Libxml2 +2 · Libxml2 +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: libxml2 versions prior to 2.9.2 Description: The issue is related to the handling of external entities expansion in libxml2, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or...

Seam: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw in remoting

Multiple XML External Entity XXE vulnerabilities in the 1 ExecutionHandler, 2 PollHandler, and 3 SubscriptionHandler classes in JBoss Seam Remoting in JBoss Seam 2 framework 2.3.1 and earlier, as used in JBoss Web Framework Kit, allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly have oth...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit 2.4.0 update

An update for the seam-remoting component of Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit 2.4.0 that fixes two security issues is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

CVE-2013-6429 Fix for XML External Entity (XXE) injection (CVE-2013-4152) in Spring Framework was incomplete

Severity: Important Vendor: Spring by Pivotal Versions Affected: - Spring MVC 3.0.0 to 3.2.4 - Spring MVC 4.0.0.M1-4.0.0.RC1 - Earlier unsupported versions may be affected Description: Spring MVC's SourceHttpMessageConverter also processed user provided XML and neither disabled XML external...

OpenJDK: XXE issue in decoder (Beans, 8023245)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u55, 6u65, and 7u45; JRockit R27.7.7 and R28.2.9; Java SE Embedded 7u45; and OpenJDK 7 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and availability via unknown vectors related to Beans. NOTE: the previous information is from the Janua...