XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service Vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Commerce

CVE-2014-4834 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.x through 6.0.0.11 and 7.x through 7.0.0.8 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

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