CVE-2014-0096

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
5.8%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 9% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: May 31, 2014 (4367 days ago)
Last Modified: May 6, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

CWE

CWE-264

Affected Products

apache tomcat

References

🔗 advisories.mageia.org 🔗 linux.oracle.com 🔗 lists.fedoraproject.org 🔗 marc.info 🔗 marc.info