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medium 5.0

CVE-2014-3242 json

SOAPpy vulnerable to XML External Entity attacks

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-52wr-3vww-rmpq , PYSEC-2026-924 , EUVD-2022-2479

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SOAPpy 0.12.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP request containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3242 updated cvss 5.0

SOAPpy: XML External Entity (XXE) flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SOAPpy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 SOAPpy
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • pnigos.com http://www.pnigos.com/?p=260 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi soappy
<=0.12.5
no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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