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Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Makina-corpus SOAPpy 0.12.5. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2014-3243. There is not any exploit available.
Details
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Makina-corpus SOAPpy 0.12.5. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:
SOAPpy 0.12.5 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references.
The weakness was released 05/12/2014 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at seclists.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-3243 since 05/06/2014. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 218343 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-3243), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (218343) and SecurityFocus (BID 67216†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-69650. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.
Product
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3
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VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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Exploiting
Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 218343
Nessus Name: Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-3243
OpenVAS ID: 63145
OpenVAS Name: SOAPpy XML External Entities Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
05/06/2014 🔍05/06/2014 🔍
05/12/2014 🔍
05/12/2014 🔍
03/25/2015 🔍
03/04/2025 🔍
Sources
Advisory: seclists.orgStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2014-3243 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-3243
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-69651
SecurityFocus: 67216 - SOAPpy XML External Entity Injection and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 03/25/2015 16:45Updated: 03/04/2025 15:46
Changes: 03/25/2015 16:45 (50), 03/09/2019 16:35 (4), 03/04/2025 15:46 (18)
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Cache ID: 216:DEF:103
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