CVE-2014-5452

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-09-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

CDA.xsl in HL7 C-CDA 1.1 and earlier does not anticipate the possibility of invalid C-CDA documents with crafted XML attributes, which allows remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via a document containing a table that is improperly handled during unrestricted xsl:copy operations.

Affected products

HL7 C-Cda: through 1.1

References

http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/strucdoc/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=1088
http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/hl7-cda-stylesheet-patches.html
http://smartplatforms.org/2014/04/security-vulnerabilities-in-ccda-display/
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699588
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69633
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033511
http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/strucdoc/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=1088
http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/hl7-cda-stylesheet-patches.html
http://smartplatforms.org/2014/04/security-vulnerabilities-in-ccda-display/
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699588
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69633
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033511

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