PT-2013-14: XML External Entities Injection in PHP Vulnerable softwarePHP Version: 5.4.12/5.3.22 and earlierApplication link: http://php.net/Severity levelSeverity level: Medium Impact: XML External Entities Injection (XXE) Access Vector: Remote CVSS v2: Base Score: 5.0 Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)CVE: CVE-2013-1643 Software descriptionPHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.Vulnerability descriptionThe specialists of Positive Technologies have detected an "XXE" vulnerability in PHP.The vulnerability was detected in the PHP's built-in SoapClient and SoapServer classes. PHP allows the use of external entities while parsing SOAP wsdl files which allows an attacker to read arbitrary files. If a web application unserializes user-supplied data and tries to execute any method of it, an attacker can send serialized SoapClient object initialized in non-wsdl mode which will make PHP to parse automatically remote XML-document specified in the "location" option parameter.How to fixUpdate your software up to the latest version.Advisory status 07.02.2013 - Vendor gets vulnerability details 14.03.2013 - Vendor releases fixed version and details 19.03.2013 - Public disclosureCreditsThe vulnerability was discovered by Arseniy Reutov, Positive Research Center (Positive Technologies Company)Referenceshttp://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2013-14 Reports on the vulnerabilities previously discovered by Positive Research:http://ptsecurity.com/research/advisory/ http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/