WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2014-5265 Modified

Drupal: A security weakness

Drupal is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.

CVE / CNA score 5.0 CVSS · cve@mitre.org
NVD score 5.0 CVSS 2.0 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Drupal
Plugin slug
drupal
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Aug 18, 2014
Weakness
CWE-399 — Resource Management Errors

This CVE was published Aug 18, 2014 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Drupal to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library, as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31, permits entity declarations without considering 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, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

NVD vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Primary and upstream sources