CVE-2014-8125

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-12-22
CWE:
CWE-611
Bugzilla:
1169553: CVE-2014-8125 jBPM: BPMN2 file processing XXE in Process Execution
It was discovered that the jBPM runtime performed expansion of external parameter entities while executing BPMN2 files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform other more advanced XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8125 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5; Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5; and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4 and 5 are now in Phase 3, Extended Life Support, of their respective life cycles. This issue has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat JBoss Middleware and Red Hat JBoss Operations Network Product Update and Support Policy: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes/

CVSS v2 metrics

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

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.0 RHSA-2015:0851 2015-04-16
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0 RHSA-2015:0850 2015-04-16

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jbpm Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5 jbpm Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4 jbpm Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 5 jbpm Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbpm Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 jbpm Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Jeremy Lindop of Red Hat.

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