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CVE-2014-3243

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3243 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in SOAPpy 0.12.5, affecting makina_corpus soappy, where improper recursion detection during entity expansion allows remote attackers to consume excessive memory and CPU via crafted SOAP requests with nested entity references. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to potential availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.12.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:makina-corpus:soappy:0.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
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 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: SOAPpyFixed in: 0.12.6
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: SOAPpy
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: SOAPpy

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-2gh8-gr6x-7q26medium

SOAPpy vulnerable to XXE attacks

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2014-3243Moderate

SOAPpy: XML entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

Apr 22, 2014

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/May/20
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/9
pnigos.com
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/67216