4.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2014-4834
IBM WebSphere Commerce Entity Expansion DoS
Description

IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.x through 6.0.0.11 and 7.x through 7.0.0.8 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 5, 2014, 11:55 a.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 30, 2019, 4:19 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2014-4834 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Ibm websphere_commerce
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Sep. 30, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_commerce:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:a:ibm:websphere_commerce:6.0.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 29, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/95628 [Vendor Advisory]
    Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95628 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 26, 2015

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/95628 No Types Assigned http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/95628 Advisory
    Added CWE NVD-CWE-Other
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 14, 2014

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70870
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 05, 2014

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.94 }} 0.00%

score

0.80636

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability