CVE-2014-4814

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Published 2014-10-28 · 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

3.5

Description

IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 through 6.1.0.6 CF27, 6.1.5 through 6.1.5.3 CF27, 7.0 through 7.0.0.2 CF28, 8.0 through 8.0.0.1 CF14, and 8.5.0 before CF03 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote authenticated users 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.

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.0.0`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.0.1`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.0.2`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.0.3`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.0.4`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.0.5`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.0.6`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.5.0`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.5.1`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.5.2`
ibm	websphere_portal	`6.1.5.3`
ibm	websphere_portal	`7.0.0.0`
ibm	websphere_portal	`7.0.0.1`
ibm	websphere_portal	`7.0.0.2`
ibm	websphere_portal	`8.0.0.0`
ibm	websphere_portal	`8.0.0.1`
ibm	websphere_portal	`8.5.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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

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