What is CVE-2014-8163?

CVE-2014-8163 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Satellite, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-28.

How severe is CVE-2014-8163?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Red Hat Satellite

CVE-2014-8163

Directory traversal vulnerability in the XMLRPC interface in Red Hat Satellite 5.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2017-08-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 73.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Satellite — versions 5.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (VDB Entry, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-8163 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-8163?: CVE-2014-8163 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Satellite, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-08-28.
How severe is CVE-2014-8163?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.