CVE-2014-0096

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-31 · updated 2026-10-14
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

Apache Tomcat: through 6.0.39; 7.0.0, 7.0.0-beta, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.2-beta, 7.0.3 (+100)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0268.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0865.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150282.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=141017844705317&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144498216801440&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/135
http://secunia.com/advisories/59121
http://secunia.com/advisories/59616

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