CVE-2013-1665
Description
The XML libraries for Python 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, and 2.6, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex and Folsom, Django, and possibly other products allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) attack.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2012.1.1-13 |
| sid | Fixed | 2012.1.1-13 |
| forky | Fixed | 2012.1.1-13 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2012.1.1-13 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2012.1.1-13 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openstack | folsom | - | |
| openstack | keystone_essex | - | |
References
- http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html
- http://bugs.python.org/issue17239
- http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2634
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1100279
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1665
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/1c60d07ba23e0350351c278ad28d0bd5aa410b40
- https://github.com/django/django/commit/d19a27066b2247102e65412aa66917aff0091112
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1665
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.