CVE-2014-6259

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.

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory