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    CVE-2013-4002

    XMLscanner.java in Apache Xerces2 Java Parser before 2.12.0, as used in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in IBM Java 5.0 before 5.0 SR16-FP3, 6 before 6 SR14, 6.0.1 before 6.0.1 SR6, and 7 before 7 SR5 as well as Oracle Java SE 7u40 and earlier, Java SE 6u60 and earlier, Java SE 5.0u51 and earlier, JRockit R28.2.8 and earlier, JRockit R27.7.6 and earlier, Java SE Embedded 7u40 and earlier, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XML attribute names.

    Published:Jul 23, 2013
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Jul 23, 2013
    EPSS Score:0.01422
    CVSS Score:7.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Xerces2 Java
    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Hp
    Product
    Hp-ux
    Vendor
    Ibm
    Product
    Aix
    Vendor
    Ibm
    Product
    Host On-demand
    Vendor
    Ibm
    Product
    I
    Vendor
    Ibm
    Product
    Java
    Vendor
    Ibm
    Product
    Sterling B2b Integrator
    Vendor
    Ibm
    Product
    Sterling File Gateway
    Vendor
    Ibm
    Product
    Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
    Vendor
    Linux
    Product
    Linux Kernel
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Jdk
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Jre
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Jrockit
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Solaris
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Bpms
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Brms
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Data Grid
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Data Virtualization
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Fuse Service Works
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Operations Network
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Extras
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Rhel Extras Oracle Java
    Vendor
    Suse
    Product
    Linux Enterprise Desktop
    Vendor
    Suse
    Product
    Linux Enterprise Java
    Vendor
    Suse
    Product
    Linux Enterprise Sdk
    Vendor
    Suse
    Product
    Linux Enterprise Server

    Exploits

    https://github.com/tafamace/CVE-2013-4002

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    References

    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00001.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00026.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00027.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00028.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00029.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00003.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00010.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00023.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=138674031212883&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=138674073720143&w=2
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1059.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1060.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1081.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1440.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1447.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1451.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1505.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1818.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1821.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1822.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1823.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0773.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/56257
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5982
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/trunk/src/org/apache/xerces/impl/XMLScanner.java?r1=965250&r2=1499506&view=patch
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC98015
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21644197
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21653371
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657539
    http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/HS13-025/index.html
    http://www.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/security_bulletin_ibm_filenet_content_manager_and_ibm_content_foundation_xml_4j_denial_of_service_attack_cve_2013_4002
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_July_2013
    http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648172
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61310
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2033-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2089-1
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85260
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1679
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49dc6702104a86ecbb40292dcd329ce9ae4c32b74733199ecab14a73%40%3Cj-users.xerces.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
    https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.html
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00001.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00026.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00027.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00028.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00029.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00000.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00003.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00010.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00023.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=138674031212883&w=2
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=138674073720143&w=2
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1059.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1060.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1081.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1440.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1447.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1451.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1505.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1818.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1821.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1822.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1823.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0773.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/56257
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5982
    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/trunk/src/org/apache/xerces/impl/XMLScanner.java?r1=965250&r2=1499506&view=patch
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC98015
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21644197
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21653371
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657539
    http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/HS13-025/index.html
    http://www.ibm.com/connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/security_bulletin_ibm_filenet_content_manager_and_ibm_content_foundation_xml_4j_denial_of_service_attack_cve_2013_4002
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/alerts/#IBM_Security_Update_July_2013
    http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21648172
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61310
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2033-1
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2089-1
    https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85260
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1679
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/49dc6702104a86ecbb40292dcd329ce9ae4c32b74733199ecab14a73%40%3Cj-users.xerces.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r204ba2a9ea750f38d789d2bb429cc0925ad6133deea7cbc3001d96b5%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
    https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2013-1899837.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High