Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-10868 - XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in Redhat Certification 7.0

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
redhat
CWE-776

Summary

redhat-certification 7 does not properly restrict the number of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents, allowing an unauthenticated user to run a "Billion Laugh Attack" by replying to XMLRPC methods when getting the status of an host.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Redhat
1