5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.436 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.3%
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.
cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830
core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29405/branches/3.9
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2014-5265
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5265
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5265
wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5265
www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004