CVE-2014-1868

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-02-09
Bugzilla:
1065199: CVE-2014-1868 Restlet: DoS due to XML entity expansion

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Restlet Framework 2.1.x before 2.1.7 and 2.x.x before 2.2 RC1, when using XMLRepresentation or XML serializers, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1868 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not affected. Restlet as shipped with various Red Hat products does not include any of the extensions affected by this flaw.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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