CVE-2014-6166

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-18 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Communications Enabled Applications (CEA) service in IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.x before 8.0.0.10 and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.4, and Feature Pack for CEA 1.x before 1.0.0.15, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

IBM WebSphere Application Server: 8.0.0.0, 8.0.0.1, 8.0.0.2, 8.0.0.3, 8.0.0.4, 8.0.0.5 (+11)

References

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI25310
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI28632
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21690185
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97746
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI25310
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI28632
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21690185
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97746

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