The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.22 and 5.4.x before 5.4.12 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP WSDL file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the soap_xmlParseFile and soap_xmlParseMemory functions.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1824
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918187
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=188c196d4da60bdde9190d2fc532650d17f7af2d
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=afe98b7829d50806559acac9b530acb8283c3bf4
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
• http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2013/CVE-2013-1824.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5880
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=188c196d4da60bdde9190d2fc532650d17f7af2d
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=afe98b7829d50806559acac9b530acb8283c3bf4