CVE-2012-3489: Apple Mac OS X Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The xml_parse function in the libxml2 support in the core server component in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 allows remote authenticated users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or URLs, and possibly obtain file or URL content that triggers a parsing error, via an XML value that refers to (1) a DTD or (2) an entity, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X Server: from 10.7.0, up to and including 10.7.5; version 10.6.8 only
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 10.04 only; version 11.04 only; version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 6.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.4 only; version 12.1 only; version 12.2 only
• PostgreSQL PostgreSQL: from 8.3.0, before 8.3.20 (fixed in 8.3.20); from 8.4.0, before 8.4.13 (fixed in 8.4.13); from 9.0.0, before 9.0.9 (fixed in 9.0.9); from 9.1.0, before 9.1.5 (fixed in 9.1.5)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 6.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2012-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.