CVE-2014-4814

low
Published 2014-10-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.5
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@us.ibm.com — http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684651

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.0.0
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.0.1
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.0.2
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.0.3
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.0.4
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.0.5
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.0.6
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.5.0
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.5.1
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.5.2
ibmwebsphere_portal6.1.5.3
ibmwebsphere_portal7.0.0.0
ibmwebsphere_portal7.0.0.1
ibmwebsphere_portal7.0.0.2
ibmwebsphere_portal8.0.0.0
ibmwebsphere_portal8.0.0.1
ibmwebsphere_portal8.5.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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