CVE-2014-6303
Description
The Monitoring Administration pages in PNMsoft Sequence Kinetics before 7.7 do not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pnmsoft | sequence_kinetics | {"endIncluding":"7.5"} | |
References
- http://licensing.pnmsoft.com/documents/Security%20Bulletins/Security%20Bulletin%202014-1.htm
- http://twitter.com/d_gianni/statuses/562628862648270849/photo/1
- http://licensing.pnmsoft.com/documents/Security%20Bulletins/Security%20Bulletin%202014-1.htm
- http://twitter.com/d_gianni/statuses/562628862648270849/photo/1
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.