CVE-2014-6303
The Monitoring Administration pages in PNMsoft Sequence Kinetics before 7.7 do not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XML document containing…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Monitoring Administration pages in PNMsoft Sequence Kinetics before 7.7 do not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 1.22% probability · 67th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- pnmsoft/sequence kinetics
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://licensing.pnmsoft.com/documents/Security%20Bulletins/Security%20Bulletin%202014-1.htmVendor Advisory
- http://twitter.com/d_gianni/statuses/562628862648270849/photo/1
- http://licensing.pnmsoft.com/documents/Security%20Bulletins/Security%20Bulletin%202014-1.htmVendor Advisory
- http://twitter.com/d_gianni/statuses/562628862648270849/photo/1
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.