Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-3823
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- azl3 php 8.3.19-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 php 8.1.22-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 8.2.8-1 |
| — | Security Update | 8.1.22-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-3823
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.6 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
In PHP versions 8.0.* before 8.0.30, 8.1.* before 8.1.22, and 8.2.* before 8.2.8 various XML functions rely on libxml global state to track configuration variables, like whether external entities are loaded. This state is assumed to be unchanged unless the user explicitly changes it by calling appropriate function. However, since the state is process-global, other modules - such as ImageMagick - may also use this library within the same process, and change that global state for their internal purposes, and leave it in a state where external entities loading is enabled. This can lead to the situation where external XML is parsed with external entities loaded, which can lead to disclosure of any local files accessible to PHP. This vulnerable state may persist in the same process across many requests, until the process is shut down.
Published by PHP Group, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-3823, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).