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CVE-2012-6532

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6532 describes an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) vulnerability affecting Zend Framework versions 1.x before 1.11.13 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0, specifically within Zend_Dom, Zend_Feed, Zend_Soap, and Zend_XmlRpc components. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (CPU consumption) by submitting crafted XML DOCTYPE declarations containing recursive or circular entity references. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zend:zend_framework:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zend:zend_framework:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zend:zend_framework:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zend:zend_framework:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zend:zend_framework:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0185 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: zendframework/zendframework1Fixed in: 1.11.13
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: zendframework/zendframework1Fixed in: 1.12.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-jh4x-4wmf-67prmedium

Zend Framework XEE Vulnerability

May 17, 2022

References

framework.zend.com / security/advisory/ZF2012-02
Vendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories