CVE-2014-3530

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The org.picketlink.common.util.DocumentUtil.getDocumentBuilderFactory method in PicketLink, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBEAP) 5.2.0 and 6.2.4, expands entity references, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary code and possibly have other unspecified impact via unspecified vectors, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

Red Hat JBoss EAP: 5.2.0, 6.2.4

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0883.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0884.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0885.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0886.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0091.html
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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1888.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60047
http://secunia.com/advisories/60124
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030607

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