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CVE-2015-5161

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 9.91% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2015-08-25 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2015-5161
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
9.91%

Original NVD Description

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.