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Drupal Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2014-5265 - Vulnerability Database
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Drupal Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2014-5265

Medium
Reference: CVE-2014-5265
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5265
Title: Drupal Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

The Incutio XML-RPC (IXR) Library as used in WordPress before 3.9.2 and Drupal 6.x before 6.33 and 7.x before 7.31 permits entity declarations without considering recursion during entity expansion which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.