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CVE-2014-1868

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Restlet Framework 2.1.x before 2.1.7 and 2.x.x before 2.2 RC1, when using XMLRepresentation or XML serializers, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Affected products

• Restlet Framework: through 2.2; 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (+6)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/56940
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91181
• https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/wiki/XEE-security-enhancements
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56940
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91181
• https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/wiki/XEE-security-enhancements

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