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CVE-2014-8875 (GCVE-0-2014-8875)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-19 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:33
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Summary
The XML_RPC_cd function in lib/pear/XML/RPC.php in Revive Adserver before 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a crafted XML-RPC request, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2014-12-17 00:00
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