CVE-2014-4814 (GCVE-0-2014-4814)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-10-28 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:27
VLAI
Summary
IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 through 6.1.0.6 CF27, 6.1.5 through 6.1.5.3 CF27, 7.0 through 7.0.0.2 CF28, 8.0 through 8.0.0.1 CF14, and 8.5.0 before CF03 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
ibm
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70758 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPAR
http://secunia.com/advisories/59740 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2014-10-24 00:00
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