CVE-2014-0096: Apache Tomcat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• Apache Tomcat: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; version 7.0.5 only; …

Published 2014-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.