XML Entity Expansion (XEE) Attack in SysAid Help Desk before 15.2

XML Entity Expansion (XEE) Attack in SysAid Help Desk before 15.2

CVE-2015-3000 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

SysAid Help Desk before 15.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a large number of nested entity references in an XML document to (1) /agententry, (2) /rdsmonitoringresponse, or (3) /androidactions, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

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