Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-1439 - Unspecified vulnerability in Hiphop Virtual Machine FOR PHP Project Hiphop Virtual Machine FOR PHP

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE

Summary

The libxml_disable_entity_loader function in runtime/ext/ext_simplexml.cpp in HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP (HHVM) before 2.4.0 and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 does not properly disable a certain libxml handler, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks. CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')