CVE-2014-2730

Published Apr 5, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 11.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
The XML parser in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013, and Office for Mac 2011, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and persistent application hang) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, as demonstrated by a crafted text/plain e-mail message to Outlook, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-2758 The XML parser in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013, and Office for Mac 2011, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and persistent application hang) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, as demonstrated by a crafted text/plain e-mail message to Outlook, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 10:21 AM
Reserved
Apr 5, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 5, 2014, 2:55 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:07 AM