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FKIE_CVE-2014-5398

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-08-28 01:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:11

Severity

Summary

Schneider Electric Wonderware Information Server (WIS) Portal 4.0 SP1 through 5.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

References

URL	Tags
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov	https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/blob/develop/csaf_files/OT/white/2014/icsa-14-238-02.json
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov	https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-14-238-02
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-14-238-02	US Government Resource

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
invensys	wonderware_information_server	4.0
invensys	wonderware_information_server	4.0
invensys	wonderware_information_server	4.5
invensys	wonderware_information_server	5.0
invensys	wonderware_information_server	5.5

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CVE-2014-5398 (GCVE-0-2014-5398)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-28 01:00 – Updated: 2025-10-31 23:16

Title

Schneider Electric Wonderware Input Validation

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-20

Assigner

icscert CNA under the icscert root

CNA scorecard B 75/100 over 350 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/i…
https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/blob/develop/csaf…
https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-14-238-02	x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Schneider Electric	Wonderware Information Server Portal	Affected: 4.0 SP1 Affected: 4.5 Affected: 5.0 Affected: 5.5 cpe:2.3:a:schneider_electric:wonderware_information_server_portal:4.0_sp1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:schneider_electric:wonderware_information_server_portal:4.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:schneider_electric:wonderware_information_server_portal:5.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:schneider_electric:wonderware_information_server_portal:5.5:::::::*

Date Public

2014-08-26 06:00

Credits

Timur Yunusov, Ilya Karpov, Sergey Gordeychik, Alexey Osipov, and Dmitry Serebryannikov of the Positive Technologies Research Team

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