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medium 6.5

CVE-2014-3573 json

The oVirt Engine backend module, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager before 3.4.2, uses an "insecure DocumentBuilderFactor…

published 2014-10-18 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-3554

cvss
6.5
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

The oVirt Engine backend module, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager before 3.4.2, uses an "insecure DocumentBuilderFactory," which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted XML/RSDL document, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Patch / fix

  • rhevm rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev
  • rhevm-lib rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev
  • rhevm-setup rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev
  • rhevm-tools rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev
  • rhevm-backend rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev
  • rhevm-restapi rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev
  • rhevm-dbscripts rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev
  • rhevm-setup-base rhev manager 3 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:1161

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-2014-3573 updated cvss 4.0

Engine: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw in backend module

  • Red Hat Storage 2 org.ovirt.engine-root Red Hat Storage 3 org.ovirt.engine-root
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat RHEV-M 3.4 rhevm 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev, rhevm-lib 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev, rhevm-setup 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev, rhevm-tools 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev, rhevm-backend 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev, rhevm-restapi 3.4.2-0.2.el6ev, +9 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:1161

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

1.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.