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CVE-2014-8162

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8162 describes an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability within the RPC interface of Spacewalk, Red Hat Network Satellite 5.7 and earlier, and SUSE Manager/Network Satellite. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read arbitrary files and potentially cause other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its low attack complexity and potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:network_satellite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:suse:manager:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0269 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-java-0:2.3.8-103.el6sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: spacewalk-setup-0:2.3.0-17.el6sat
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-8162Moderate

Satellite5: RPC API XML External Entities file disclosure

May 11, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00020.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0957.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/74595