CVE-2013-4517 (GCVE-0-2013-4517)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-11 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
Summary
Apache Santuario XML Security for Java before 1.5.6, when applying Transforms, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted Document Type Definitions (DTDs), related to signatures.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2013-12-18 00:00
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