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CVE-2014-2228

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-776

Description

The XStream extension in HP Fortify SCA before 2.2 RC3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unsafe deserialization of XML messages.

Affected products

• www.restlet.org/ Restlet: through 2.1.7; 2.2-m1, 2.2-m2, 2.2-m3, 2.2-m4, 2.2-m5, 2.2-m6 (+3)

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140425095352/http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Remote-code-execution-and-XML-Entity-Expansion-injection/ba-p/6403370
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140425095352/http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Remote-code-execution-and-XML-Entity-Expansion-injection/ba-p/6403370

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