Vulnerability in Zenoss Core

CVE-2014-6259

Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3 does not properly detect 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, aka ZEN-15414, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

EPSS: 0.016 (73.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Zenoss Zenoss_core — versions 2.4.0, 2.4.5, 2.5.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)