Fluid Attacks Database

Description

CakePHP vulnerable to Denial of Service attack through XML payloads RequestHandlerComponent had a vulnerability that would allow well crafted requests to create a denial of service attack. RequestHandlerComponent leverages Xml::build() which allows reading local files. We recommend that all applications using RequestHandlerComponent upgrade, or disable parsing XML payloads.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
packagist	cakephp/cakephp	>=3.0.0 <3.0.6 \|\| >=2.0.0 <2.0.99 \|\| >=2.1.0 <2.1.99 \|\| >=2.2.0 <2.2.99 \|\| >=2.3.0 <2.3.99 \|\| >=2.4.0 <2.4.99 \|\| >=2.5.0 <2.5.90 \|\| >=2.6.0 <2.6.6	3.0.6, 2.0.99, 2.1.99, 2.2.99, 2.3.99, 2.4.99, 2.5.90, 2.6.6

Aliases

1. GCVE-GHSA-q79m-c546-2g63

References

1. https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/c186487151356a8d7c6e2cae05f87b9df0e59fbb2. https://bakery.cakephp.org/2015/05/28/cakephp_2_6_6_and_3_0_6_released.html3. https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/cakephp/cakephp/2015-05-28.yaml

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