CVE-2014-4834: IBM WebSphere Commerce

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM WebSphere Commerce 6.x through 6.0.0.11 and 7.x through 7.0.0.8 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and application crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Commerce: version 6.0.0.0 only; version 6.0.0.1 only; version 6.0.0.2 only; version 6.0.0.3 only; version 6.0.0.4 only; version 6.0.0.5 only; …

Published 2014-11-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.