SCA: security update for zendframework/zendframework1, zendframework/zendopenid, zendframework/zendrest, zendframework/zendservice-amazon, zendframework/zendservice-api, zendframework/zendservice-audioscrobbler, zendframework/zendservice-nirvanix, zendframework/zendservice-slideshare, zendframework/zendservice-technorati, zendframework/zendservice-windowsazure (GHSA-5wm2-38q5-5rxv)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432297

Description

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

- Zend Framework 1 (ZF1) before 1.12.4, Zend Framework 2 before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.6, ZendOpenId,
ZendRest, ZendService_AudioScrobbler, ZendService_Nirvanix, ZendService_SlideShare,
ZendService_Technorati, and ZendService_WindowsAzure before 2.0.2, ZendService_Amazon before 2.0.3, and
ZendService_Api before 1.0.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1)
recursive or (2) circular references in an XML entity definition in an XML DOCTYPE declaration, aka an XML
Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6532.
(CVE-2014-2683)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5wm2-38q5-5rxv

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 432297

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-2683

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2683

BID: 66358