Secunia Security Advisory - Pawel Wylecial has reported a vulnerability in CakePHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
CakePHP XML External Entities Information Disclosure Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49900
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-07-17
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DESCRIPTION:
Pawel Wylecial has reported a vulnerability in CakePHP, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive
information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing external XML
entities and can be exploited to e.g. disclose local files.
The vulnerability is reported in the versions prior to 2.1.5 and
2.2.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.1.5 or 2.2.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Pawel Wylecial.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
CakePHP:
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/markstory/2012/07/14/security_release_-_cakephp_2_1_5_2_2_1
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/6c905411bac66caad5e220a70e3d561b8a648507
Pawel Wylecial:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-07/0102.html
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