CVE-2013-2155: Apache XML Security For C++

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ (aka xml-security-c) before 1.7.1 does not properly validate length values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or bypass the CVE-2009-0217 protection mechanism and spoof a signature via crafted length values to the (1) compareBase64StringToRaw, (2) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault, or (3) DSIGAlgorithmHandlerDefault::verify functions.

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.