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CVE-2014-8125

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8125 is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability affecting Red Hat Drools and jBPM versions prior to 6.2.0. This flaw allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or potentially cause other unspecified impacts by submitting a specially crafted BPMN2 file. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, indicating a network-based attack with low access complexity that could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:drools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 6.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jbpm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0266 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.drools:drools-coreFixed in: 6.2.0.Final
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.jbpm:jbpm-bpmn2Fixed in: 6.2.0.Final
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.0Fixed in: jbpm
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0Fixed in: jbpm
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6Fixed in: jbpm
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6Fixed in: jbpm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5Fixed in: jbpm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5Fixed in: jbpm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4Fixed in: jbpm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5Fixed in: jbpm

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-6qx9-rf9g-7jmrhigh

Improper Input Validation in Drools and jBPM

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-8125Moderate

jBPM: BPMN2 file processing XXE in Process Execution

Dec 22, 2014

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0850.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0851.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / droolsjbpm/drools/commit/c48464c3b246e6ef0d4cd0dbf67e83ccd532c6d3
github.com / droolsjbpm/jbpm/commit/713e8073ecf45623cfc5c918c5cbf700203f46e5