CVE-2013-2160
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 32.3%EU EUVD
The streaming XML parser in Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted XML with a large number of (1) elements, (2) attributes, (3) nested constructs, and possibly other vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 32.3% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-1906)
- Published
- August 19, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-1906 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
- apache / cxf
References
- http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WSTX-285(Patch)
- http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WSTX-287(Patch)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1028.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1437.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929197
- https://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2013-2160.txt.asc(Vendor Advisory)
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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