🛡️ GHSA-q79m-c546-2g63 — cakephp

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Affected software

GHSA-q79m-c546-2g63 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cakephp/cakephp (from 2.6.0 up to 2.6.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 January 2023 and last revised on 29 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
bakery.cakephp.org (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-01-20
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-11-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cakephp/cakephp 2.6.0 2.6.6

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