CVE-2014-3243 (GCVE-0-2014-3243)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-12 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:35
VLAI
Summary
SOAPpy 0.12.5 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/20 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.pnigos.com/?p=260 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67216 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/9 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2014-05-06 00:00
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