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CVE-2014-3243

SOAPpy: XML entity expansion (billion laughs) flaw

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 22, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-776 · Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')