CVE-2014-1868

Restlet Framework 2.1.x before 2.1.7 and 2.x.x before 2.2 RC1, when using XMLRepresentation or XML serializers, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Published: 2014-10-06 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-1868 is rated Low Risk (38.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.34%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-1868

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.66% 0.34% -0.32%
2 2025-03-29 0.34% 0.66% +0.32%
3 2025-03-19 — 0.34% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-1868

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-1868

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2014-1868

GHSA-73cq-fhp3-8rpw · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.restlet.jse:org.restlet

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-1868

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-1868 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (restlet), 29 status rows across 29 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, quantal, questing, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 17, ignored 9, needed 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1868

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2014-1868

Comment: <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/611.html" target="_blank">CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')</a>

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-1868

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
restlet restlet_framework <= 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:*:milestone6:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.1.3 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.1.5 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.1.6 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.2:milestone1:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.2:milestone2:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.2:milestone3:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.2:milestone4:*:*:*:*:*:*
restlet restlet_framework 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:restlet:restlet_framework:2.2:milestone5:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-1868

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