Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-3004 - XXE vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
The default configuration for the Xerces SAX Parser in Castor before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML document.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
---|---|---|
Application | 3 | |
OS | 1 | |
OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Exploit-Db
description | Castor Library XML External Entity Information Disclosure Vulnerability. CVE-2014-3004. Remote exploits for multiple platform |
id | EDB-ID:39205 |
last seen | 2016-02-04 |
modified | 2014-05-27 |
published | 2014-05-27 |
reporter | Ron Gutierrez |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/39205/ |
title | Castor Library XML External Entity Information Disclosure Vulnerability |
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-16446.NASL description Update to latest upstream point release containing fix for CVE-2014-3004 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-12-15 plugin id 79946 published 2014-12-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79946 title Fedora 21 : castor-1.3.3-1.fc21 (2014-16446) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2014-16446. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(79946); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3004"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-16446"); script_name(english:"Fedora 21 : castor-1.3.3-1.fc21 (2014-16446)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Update to latest upstream point release containing fix for CVE-2014-3004 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108639" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146246.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9bfbe9ae" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected castor package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:castor"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/12/06"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/12/15"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^21([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 21.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC21", reference:"castor-1.3.3-1.fc21")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "castor"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2014-16346.NASL description Update to latest upstream point release containing fix for CVE-2014-3004 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2014-12-15 plugin id 79935 published 2014-12-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/79935 title Fedora 20 : castor-1.3.3-1.fc20 (2014-16346) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2014-16346. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(79935); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2014-3004"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2014-16346"); script_name(english:"Fedora 20 : castor-1.3.3-1.fc20 (2014-16346)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Update to latest upstream point release containing fix for CVE-2014-3004 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108639" ); # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/146251.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?3adec97e" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected castor package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:castor"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/12/06"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/12/15"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! ereg(pattern:"^20([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 20.x", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC20", reference:"castor-1.3.3-1.fc20")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "castor"); }
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2014-435.NASL description castor was updated to prevent XXE attacks via crafted XML documents (CVE-2014-3004). last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2014-06-23 plugin id 76183 published 2014-06-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/76183 title openSUSE Security Update : castor (openSUSE-SU-2014:0822-1) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2014-435. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(76183); script_version("1.5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2013-3004", "CVE-2014-3004"); script_bugtraq_id(67676); script_name(english:"openSUSE Security Update : castor (openSUSE-SU-2014:0822-1)"); script_summary(english:"Check for the openSUSE-2014-435 patch"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "castor was updated to prevent XXE attacks via crafted XML documents (CVE-2014-3004)." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882408" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00043.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected castor packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:castor"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:castor-demo"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:castor-javadoc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:castor-test"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:castor-xml"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/06/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/06/23"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE"); if (release !~ "^(SUSE12\.3|SUSE13\.1)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "12.3 / 13.1", release); if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"castor-0.9.5-317.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"castor-demo-0.9.5-317.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"castor-javadoc-0.9.5-317.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"castor-test-0.9.5-317.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE12.3", reference:"castor-xml-0.9.5-317.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"castor-0.9.5-320.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"castor-demo-0.9.5-320.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"castor-test-0.9.5-320.4.1") ) flag++; if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE13.1", reference:"castor-xml-0.9.5-320.4.1") ) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "castor"); }
Packetstorm
data source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/150162/ciscowebex-xxe.txt id PACKETSTORM:150162 last seen 2018-11-06 published 2018-11-05 reporter Alphan Yavas source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150162/Cisco-WebEx-Meetings-Server-XML-Injection.html title Cisco WebEx Meetings Server XML Injection data source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/126854/castor-disclose.txt id PACKETSTORM:126854 last seen 2016-12-05 published 2014-05-30 reporter Ron Gutierrez source https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126854/Castor-Library-XXE-Disclosure.html title Castor Library XXE Disclosure
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67676
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126854/Castor-Library-XXE-Disclosure.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/142
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00043.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59427
- https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvm56811
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html