CVE-2015-4538
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
The XML parser in EMC Atmos before 2.2.3.426 and 2.3.x before 2.3.1.0 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133405/EMC-Atmos-2.3.0-XML-External-Entity-Injection.html
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Sep/7
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033456
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133405/EMC-Atmos-2.3.0-XML-External-Entity-Injection.html
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Sep/7
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033456
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.