CVE-2014-3243
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
SOAPpy 0.12.5 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 SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references.
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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Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | soappy | <0.12.6 | 0.12.6 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| makina-corpus | soappy | 0.12.5 | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3243
- https://github.com/kiorky/SOAPpy/commit/64125a24aad228761f38312d44bde4bec7354276
- https://github.com/kiorky/SOAPpy/commit/a38656817c8ce7d02e117b1308328419a5d1560f
- https://github.com/kiorky/SOAPpy/blob/develop/CHANGES.txt#L32-L37
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150501220613/http://www.pnigos.com/?p=260
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200229062311/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67216
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/20
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/9
- http://www.pnigos.com/?p=260
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67216
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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