Vulnerability in IBM Websphere Portal
CVE-2014-4814
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.
EPSS: 0.016 (73.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Ibm Websphere_portal — versions 6.1.0.0, 6.1.0.1, 6.1.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- psirt@us.ibm.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- psirt@us.ibm.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- psirt@us.ibm.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- psirt@us.ibm.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_AIXAPAR)
- psirt@us.ibm.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)