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CVE-2014-3243

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

SOAPpy 0.12.5 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references.

Affected products

• Makina-Corpus Soappy: 0.12.5

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/20
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/9
• http://www.pnigos.com/?p=260
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67216
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/20
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/9
• http://www.pnigos.com/?p=260
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67216

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