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Status published
Medium
CVE-2014-6259
Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3 does not properly detect...
Vulnerability Description
Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3 does not properly detect 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, aka ZEN-15414, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
zenoss
View all reports →Affected Software
zenoss core
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.4.0, 2.4.5, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5, 5.0.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 15th, 2014
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.