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CVE-2014-6259

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-12-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3 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 XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka ZEN-15414, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected products

• Zenoss Core: through 5.0.0; 2.4.0, 2.4.5, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 3.0.0 (+13)

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/449452
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dHAc4PxUbs-4Dxzm1wSCE0sMz5UCMY6SW3PlMHSyuuQ/edit?usp=sharing
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/449452
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dHAc4PxUbs-4Dxzm1wSCE0sMz5UCMY6SW3PlMHSyuuQ/edit?usp=sharing

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