CVE-2014-4814

Severity

35%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

IBM Websphere Portal

First reported 10 years ago

2014-10-28 19:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:35:00

Affected Software

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.0.0

6.1.0.0

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.0.1

6.1.0.1

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.0.2

6.1.0.2

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.0.3

6.1.0.3

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.0.4

6.1.0.4

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.0.5

6.1.0.5

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.0.6

6.1.0.6

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.5.0

6.1.5.0

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.5.1

6.1.5.1

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.5.2

6.1.5.2

IBM Websphere Portal 6.1.5.3

6.1.5.3

IBM Websphere Portal 7.0.0.0

7.0.0.0

IBM Websphere Portal 7.0.0.1

7.0.0.1

IBM Websphere Portal 7.0.0.2

7.0.0.2

IBM Websphere Portal 8.0.0.0

8.0.0.0

IBM Websphere Portal 8.0.0.1

8.0.0.1

IBM Websphere Portal 8.5.0.0

8.5.0.0

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