CVE-2014-5325: Directwebremoting Direct Web Remoting

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in Direct Web Remoting (DWR) through 2.0.10 and 3.x through 3.0.RC2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• Directwebremoting Direct Web Remoting: up to and including 2.0.10; version 3.0 only

Published 2014-11-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.