CVE-2014-5266
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-399
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, does not limit the number of elements in an XML document, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-5265.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)76%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/Advisory
- https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004Advisory
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/modules/openid/xrds.inc?id=1849830
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404
- http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830