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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| zenoss | zenoss_core | {"endIncluding":"5.0.0"} | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 2.4.0 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 2.4.5 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 2.5.0 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 2.5.1 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 2.5.2 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 3.0.0 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 3.0.1 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 3.0.2 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 3.0.3 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 3.1.0 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 3.2.0 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 3.2.1 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 4.2.0 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 4.2.3 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 4.2.4 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 4.2.5 | |
| zenoss | zenoss_core | 5.0.0 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.