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Fencer Intel
medium 5.0

CVE-2014-5325 json

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Direct Web Remoting

published 2014-11-24 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hqw5-62gp-rqgm , EUVD-2022-4196

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in Direct Web Remoting (DWR) through 2.0.10 and 3.x through 3.0.RC2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.directwebremoting:dwr 2.0.11, 3.0.RC3

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-2014-5325 updated cvss 5.0

dwr: XML external entity injection (JVN#91502163)

  • Red Hat Satellite 5 dwr
    affected: no fix available

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

2.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

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
maven org.directwebremoting:dwr
<2.0.11
>=3.0.M1, <3.0.RC3
2.0.11
3.0.RC3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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