CVE-2014-6259 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Zenoss Core through version 5 Beta 3. It allows remote attackers to exhaust system resources (memory and CPU) by submitting a specially crafted XML document with excessive nested entity references, similar to a classic XML bomb attack. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a potential impact of partial system availability loss. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of the issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:*:beta_3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.