CVE-2014-0644

high

Published 2014-04-17 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) 10 through SP1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an api/login request containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, as demonstrated by reading the /etc/shadow file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-32623 webapps multiple

Brandon Perry · 2014-03-31

EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance 10.0 - XML External Entity Arbitrary File Read (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_gather/emc_cta_xxe rank 300

EMC CTA v10.0 Unauthenticated XXE Arbitrary File Read

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
emc	cloud_tiering_appliance_software	`10.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.