CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-8978

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In version 1.14 and earlier of the Soap Lite extension for Perl, there is a potential attack that involves defining 10 or more XML entities, leading to excessive memory usage when handling an external SOAP call.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger a memory overflow, potentially causing application crashes or denial of service.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of Soap Lite to mitigate the risks associated with this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In Soap Lite (aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl) 1.14 and earlier, an example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion copies of the first entity. The amount of computer memory used for handling an external SOAP call would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS