CVE-2014-6303 (GCVE-0-2014-6303)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-19 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:10
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Summary
The Monitoring Administration pages in PNMsoft Sequence Kinetics before 7.7 do not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
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CWE
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Date Public
2015-02-03 00:00
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