CVE-2014-5452
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
CDA.xsl in HL7 C-CDA 1.1 and earlier does not anticipate the possibility of invalid C-CDA documents with crafted XML attributes, which allows remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via a document containing a table that is improperly handled during unrestricted xsl:copy operations.
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 | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| hl7 | c-cda | {"endIncluding":"1.1"} | |
References
- http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/strucdoc/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=1088
- http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/hl7-cda-stylesheet-patches.html
- http://smartplatforms.org/2014/04/security-vulnerabilities-in-ccda-display/
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699588
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69633
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033511
- http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/strucdoc/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=1088
- http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/hl7-cda-stylesheet-patches.html
- http://smartplatforms.org/2014/04/security-vulnerabilities-in-ccda-display/
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699588
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69633
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033511
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.