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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-5265

Published: Aug 18, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5265
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/399.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
WordpressWordpress*3.9.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.0 (including)3.0 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.0.1 (including)3.0.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.0.2 (including)3.0.2 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.0.3 (including)3.0.3 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.0.4 (including)3.0.4 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.0.5 (including)3.0.5 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.0.6 (including)3.0.6 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.1 (including)3.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.1.1 (including)3.1.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.1.2 (including)3.1.2 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.1.3 (including)3.1.3 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.1.4 (including)3.1.4 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.2 (including)3.2 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.2-beta1 (including)3.2-beta1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.2.1 (including)3.2.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.3 (including)3.3 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.3.1 (including)3.3.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.3.2 (including)3.3.2 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.3.3 (including)3.3.3 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.4.0 (including)3.4.0 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.4.1 (including)3.4.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.4.2 (including)3.4.2 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.5.0 (including)3.5.0 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.5.1 (including)3.5.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.6 (including)3.6 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.6.1 (including)3.6.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.7 (including)3.7 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.7.1 (including)3.7.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.8 (including)3.8 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.8.1 (including)3.8.1 (including)
WordpressWordpress3.9.0 (including)3.9.0 (including)
Drupal6Ubuntulucid*
Drupal6Ubuntuprecise*
Drupal7Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Drupal7Ubuntuprecise*
Drupal7Ubuntutrusty*
Drupal7Ubuntutrusty/esm*
Drupal7Ubuntuupstream*
WordpressUbuntuartful*
WordpressUbuntulucid*
WordpressUbuntuprecise*
WordpressUbuntutrusty*
WordpressUbuntuupstream*
WordpressUbuntuutopic*
WordpressUbuntuvivid*
WordpressUbuntuwily*
WordpressUbuntuyakkety*
WordpressUbuntuzesty*

References

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