CVE-2013-4295

Shindig vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

12.2%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

The gadget renderer in Apache Shindig 2.5.0 for PHP allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Shindig

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information

Published

2013-10-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 12.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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