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high 7.5

CVE-2014-8125 json

Improper Input Validation in Drools and jBPM

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-6qx9-rf9g-7jmr , EUVD-2022-2850

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Drools and jBPM before 6.2.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or possibly have other unspecified impact via a crafted BPMN2 file.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.drools:drools-core 6.2.0.Final
  • maven org.jbpm:jbpm-bpmn2 6.2.0.Final

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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-2014-8125 updated cvss 5.0

jBPM: BPMN2 file processing XXE in Process Execution

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 jbpm jbpm
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 jbpm jbpm
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 jbpm jbpm
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jbpm jbpm
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 jbpm jbpm Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 jbpm jbpm
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0851
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0850

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

2.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.drools:drools-core
<6.2.0.Final
6.2.0.Final
maven org.jbpm:jbpm-bpmn2
<6.2.0.Final
6.2.0.Final

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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