{"id":"CVE-2013-1915","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-1915","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:44:00.985Z","title":"ModSecurity before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference,…","description":"ModSecurity before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, aka an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability.","published":"2013-04-25T23:55:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:52:24.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-611"],"affected":["trustwave/modsecurity","opensuse/opensuse","fedoraproject/fedora","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.04208,"percentile":0.90903,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101898.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101911.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102616.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/52847","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/52977","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2659","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:156","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/03/7","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58810","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947842","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/blob/master/CHANGES","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/commit/d4d80b38aa85eccb26e3c61b04d16e8ca5de76fe","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101898.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101911.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102616.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00020.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00025.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00031.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/52847","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/52977","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2659","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:156","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/03/7","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58810","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947842","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/blob/master/CHANGES","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/commit/d4d80b38aa85eccb26e3c61b04d16e8ca5de76fe","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1915","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}