CVE-2014-5266
The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, does not limit the number of elements in an XML document, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.4%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, does not limit the number of elements in an XML document, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5265.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 24.39% probability · 98th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress · drupal/drupal · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004Vendor Advisory
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.