Description
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.
Published: 2014-12-15
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-6145 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.
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Zenoss Zenoss Core
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T12:10:12.911Z

Reserved: 2014-09-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-6259

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Status : Modified

Published: 2014-12-15T18:59:12.580

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-6259

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