Vulnerability in Drupal
CVE-2014-5265
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.031 (87.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Drupal — versions 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
- WordPress — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 (vendor-advisory)
- wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999 (vendor-advisory)
- core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-5265?
- CVE-2014-5265 is a vulnerability in Drupal, classified under CWE-399. Published 2014-08-18.
- Is CVE-2014-5265 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.