The default configuration for the Xerces SAX Parser in Castor before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML document.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The default configuration for the Xerces SAX Parser in Castor before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent     attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML document. (CVE-2014-3004)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The default configuration for the Xerces SAX Parser in Castor before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent
    attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML document. (CVE-2014-3004)

Update to latest upstream point release containing fix for CVE-2014-3004

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

castor was updated to prevent XXE attacks via crafted XML documents (CVE-2014-3004).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
218084	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-3004	Nessus	Misc.	critical
416619	SCA: security update for org.codehaus.castor:castor (GHSA-jwwr-fjgh-cv2x)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
416619	SCA: security update for org.codehaus.castor:castor (GHSA-jwwr-fjgh-cv2x)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical
79946	Fedora 21 : castor-1.3.3-1.fc21 (2014-16446)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
79935	Fedora 20 : castor-1.3.3-1.fc20 (2014-16346)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
76183	openSUSE Security Update : castor (openSUSE-SU-2014:0822-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2014-3004

critical

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical

critical

medium

medium

medium