CVE-2014-3243

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-04-22
CWE:
CWE-776
Bugzilla:
1094620: CVE-2014-3243 SOAPpy: XML entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

SOAPpy 0.12.5 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 SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references.

Find out more about CVE-2014-3243 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SOAPpy Fix deferred
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SOAPpy Fix deferred

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