Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2014-0119

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Apache Tomcat - CVE-2014-0119

Published: June 21, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU64553
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0119
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to Apache Tomcat does not properly constrain the class loader that accesses the XML parser used with an XSLT stylesheet. A remote attacker can 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, or read files associated with different web applications on a single Tomcat instance via a crafted web application.


Affected software

Apache Tomcat
OpenVMS CSWS_Java
HP-UX Web Server Suite

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0119

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Tomcat - addressed in versions 6.0.40, 7.0.54, 8.0.6
HP-UX Web Server Suite - update to 4.02

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