CVE-2014-4814: IBM WebSphere Portal

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 through 6.1.0.6 CF27, 6.1.5 through 6.1.5.3 CF27, 7.0 through 7.0.0.2 CF28, 8.0 through 8.0.0.1 CF14, and 8.5.0 before CF03 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Portal: version 6.1.0.0 only; version 6.1.0.1 only; version 6.1.0.2 only; version 6.1.0.3 only; version 6.1.0.4 only; version 6.1.0.5 only; …

Published 2014-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.