CVE-2014-5265

high

Description

The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers 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.

References

https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004

https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999

http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-08-18

Updated: 2015-11-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High