Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-6259 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Zenoss Core

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
zenoss
CWE-399

Summary

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.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Statements

contributorZenoss
lastmodified2016-03-21
organizationZenoss
statementAddressed in versions 5.1.1, 4.2.5.SP650, and 4.2.4.SP854