GHSA-jwwr-fjgh-cv2x · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Castor
The default configuration for the Xerces SAX Parser in Castor before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML document.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-3004 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.63%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.31% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39205 | exploit_db | edb | 2014-05-27 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2026-03-17 | 1.32% | 3.63% | +2.31% |
| 2 | 2026-03-12 | 1.40% | 1.32% | -0.09% |
| 3 | 2026-01-29 | — | 1.40% | — |
Full EPSS history (13 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-jwwr-fjgh-cv2x · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Castor
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3004 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2014-3004 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (castor), 28 status rows across 28 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 19, needed 6, DNE 2, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3004 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| castor_project | castor | <= 1.3.2 | cpe:2.3:a:castor_project:castor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| castor_project | castor | 1.3 | cpe:2.3:a:castor_project:castor:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| castor_project | castor | 1.3.1 | cpe:2.3:a:castor_project:castor:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| opensuse | opensuse | 13.1 | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| opensuse_project | opensuse | 12.3 | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse_project:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |