CVE-2013-2160: Apache Cxf

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 32.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The streaming XML parser in Apache CXF 2.5.x before 2.5.10, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via crafted XML with a large number of (1) elements, (2) attributes, (3) nested constructs, and possibly other vectors.

Affected products

• Apache Cxf: version 2.5.0 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.5.2 only; version 2.5.3 only; version 2.5.4 only; version 2.5.5 only; …

Published 2013-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.