Vulnerability CVE-2014-4814


Published: 2014-10-28

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.5/10
2.9/10
6.8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
IBM -> Websphere portal 

 References:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684651
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/95391
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70758

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