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SCA: security update for zendframework/zendframework, zendframework/zendframework1, zendframework/zendxml (GHSA-xp8p-9rq5-4wgv)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434847

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The Zend_Xml_Security::scan in ZendXml before 1.0.1 and Zend Framework before 1.12.14, 2.x before 2.4.6,
 and 2.5.x before 2.5.2, when running under PHP-FPM in a threaded environment, allows remote attackers to
 bypass security checks and conduct XML external entity (XXE) and XML entity expansion (XEE) attacks via
 multibyte encoded characters. (CVE-2015-5161)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xp8p-9rq5-4wgv

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434847

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5161

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5161

BID: 76177