CVE-2013-2154: Apache XML Security For C++

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the XML Signature Reference functionality (xsec/dsig/DSIGReference.cpp) in Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed XPointer expressions, probably related to the DSIGReference::getURIBaseTXFM function.

Affected products

• Apache XML Security For C++: up to and including 1.7.0; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; …

Published 2013-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.