PT-2014-6379 · Incutio+2 · Incutio Xml-Rpc Library+2

Published 2014-08-18 · Updated 2015-11-25 · CVE-2014-5266

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in WordPress versions prior to 3.9.2 Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in Drupal versions prior to 6.33 Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in Drupal versions prior to 7.31

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to CPU consumption by sending a large XML document. This is achieved by exploiting the lack of limitation on the number of elements in an XML document.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 3.9.2, update to version 3.9.2 or later. For Drupal 6.x versions prior to 6.33, update to version 6.33 or later. For Drupal 7.x versions prior to 7.31, update to version 7.31 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-5266

DLA-56-1

DSA-2999-1

DSA-3001-1

Affected Products

Drupal

Incutio Xml-Rpc Library

Wordpress

References · 17

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_xmlrpc_dos.rb · Exploit
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2999 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5266 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5266 · Vendor Advisory
• https://drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-004 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5266 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5266 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5266 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-5266 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5266 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/diff/includes/xmlrpc.inc?id=1849830 · Note
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29404 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5266 · Note