CVE-2014-6166: IBM WebSphere Application Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Communications Enabled Applications (CEA) service in IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.x before 8.0.0.10 and 8.5.x before 8.5.5.4, and Feature Pack for CEA 1.x before 1.0.0.15, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• IBM WebSphere Application Server: version 8.0.0.0 only; version 8.0.0.1 only; version 8.0.0.2 only; version 8.0.0.3 only; version 8.0.0.4 only; version 8.0.0.5 only; …

Published 2014-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.