Bug 1135872 – CVE-2014-3579 Apache ActiveMQ Apollo: XXE via XPath expression evaluation

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Bug 1135872 - (CVE-2014-3579) CVE-2014-3579 Apache ActiveMQ Apollo: XXE via XPath expression evaluation

Summary:	CVE-2014-3579 Apache ActiveMQ Apollo: XXE via XPath expression evaluation

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-3579

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1130476
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Reported:	2014-09-01 01:09 EDT by Arun Babu Neelicattu
Modified:	2015-05-13 13:01 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

See Also:	CVE-2014-3600
Fixed In Version:	activemq-apollo 1.8
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	It was discovered that Apache ActiveMQ Apollo performed XML External Entity (XXE) expansion when evaluating XPath expressions. A remote, attacker-controlled consumer able to specify an XPath-based selector to dequeue XML messages from an Apache ActiveMQ Apollo broker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the broker, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.
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Last Closed:	2015-02-05 17:55:58 EST
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Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-01 01:09:09 EDT

IssueDescription:

It was discovered that Apache ActiveMQ Apollo performed XML External Entity (XXE) expansion when evaluating XPath expressions. A remote, attacker-controlled consumer able to specify an XPath-based selector to dequeue XML messages from an Apache ActiveMQ Apollo broker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the broker, and potentially perform other more advanced XXE attacks.

Comment 1 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-01 01:10:46 EDT

Upstream Issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APLO-366

Upstream Commit:

http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/activemq-apollo/commit/e5647554

Comment 2 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-01 01:11:01 EDT

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Georgi Geshev of MWR Labs for reporting this issue.

Comment 3 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-01 01:23:58 EDT

Statement:

Not vulnerable. Apache ActiveMQ Apollo is not shipped with any supported Red Hat product.

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