CVE-2017-14993

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-425

Description

OXID eShop Community Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance), and 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy), Enterprise Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 5.2.x before 5.2.11 (legacy), and 5.3.x before 5.3.6 (maintenance), and Professional Edition before 6.0.0 RC3 (development), 4.9.x before 4.9.11 (legacy) and 4.10.x before 4.10.6 (maintenance) allow remote attackers to crawl specially crafted URLs (aka "forced browsing") in order to overflow the database of the shop and consequently make it stop working. Prerequisite: the shop allows rendering empty categories to the storefront via an admin option.

Affected products

OXID-eSales Eshop: from 4.9.0 before 4.9.11; from 4.10.0 before 4.10.6; from 5.2.0 before 5.2.11; from 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 6.0.0-rc1, 6.0.0-rc2 — fixed in 4.10.6, 4.9.11, 5.2.11, 5.3.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OXID-eSales Eshop 4.10.6, 4.9.11, 5.2.11, 5.3.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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