CVE-2013-1664
EPSS 3.9%XML Entity Expansion (XEE) in Django
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The XML libraries for Python 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, and 2.6, as used in OpenStack Keystone Essex, Folsom, and Grizzly; Compute (Nova) Essex and Folsom; Cinder Folsom; Django; and possibly other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and crash) via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/cinderfrom 0, < 2012.2.3-1
- Debian/keystonefrom 0, < 2012.1.1-13
- Debian/novafrom 0, < 2012.1.1-13
- PyPI/django>= 1.3.0, < 1.3.6
References (15)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1664
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1664
- PATCHhttps://github.com/django/django
- WEBhttp://blog.python.org/2013/02/announcing-defusedxml-fixes-for-xml.html
- WEBhttp://bugs.python.org/issue17239
- WEBhttp://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2013-February/000078.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0657.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0658.html
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0670.html
- WEBhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1100282
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/1c60d07ba23e0350351c278ad28d0bd5aa410b40
- WEBhttps://github.com/django/django/commit/d19a27066b2247102e65412aa66917aff0091112
- WEBhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1757-1
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/2
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/19/4