CVE-2014-5325

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in Direct Web Remoting (DWR) through 2.0.10 and 3.x through 3.0.RC2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

Directwebremoting Direct Web Remoting: through 2.0.10; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN91502163/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2014-000117
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71093
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN91502163/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2014-000117
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71093

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