CVE-2014-5265

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, permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

References

http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.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/

https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2