CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-49967

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Dec 07, 2023 | Modified: Dec 09, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Typecho v1.2.1 was discovered to be vulnerable to an XML Quadratic Blowup attack via the component /index.php/action/xmlrpc.

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Typecho Typecho 1.2.1 (including) 1.2.1 (including)
Typecho Typecho 1.2.1-rc (including) 1.2.1-rc (including)
Typecho Typecho 1.2.1-rc2 (including) 1.2.1-rc2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References