CVE-2014-3243

SOAPpy: XML entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

Published May 12, 2014 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 2.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
SOAPpy 0.12.5 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-1984 SOAPpy 0.12.5 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted SOAP request containing a large number of nested entity references.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2gh8-gr6x-7q26 SOAPpy vulnerable to XXE attacks
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 10:35 AM
Reserved
May 6, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 12, 2014, 2:55 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:07 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Apr 22, 2014, 12:00 AM