CVE-2014-8875

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The XML_RPC_cd function in lib/pear/XML/RPC.php in Revive Adserver before 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a crafted XML-RPC request, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Affected products

Revive Adserver: through 3.0.5

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129621/Revive-Adserver-3.0.5-Cross-Site-Scripting-Denial-Of-Service.html
http://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2014-002/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534264/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71721
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129621/Revive-Adserver-3.0.5-Cross-Site-Scripting-Denial-Of-Service.html
http://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2014-002/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534264/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71721

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