CVE-2013-1665

Advisory

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.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1665
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1100279
• http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html
• http://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html
• http://bugs.python.org/issue17239
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2634
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html