The dcXmlRpc::setUser method in nc/core/class.dc.xmlrpc.php in Dotclear before 2.6.3 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via an empty password in an XML-RPC request.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-3781 is rated Exploit Available (59.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.45%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | 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 | 2025-03-30 | 0.71% | 0.45% | -0.26% |
| 2 | 2025-03-29 | 0.45% | 0.71% | +0.26% |
| 3 | 2025-03-23 | — | 0.45% | — |
Full EPSS history (7 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.6 | 4.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2014-3781 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dotclear), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 8, ignored 5, not-affected 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3781 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| dotclear | dotclear | <= 2.6.2 | cpe:2.3:a:dotclear:dotclear:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| dotclear | dotclear | 2.6 | cpe:2.3:a:dotclear:dotclear:2.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| dotclear | dotclear | 2.6 | cpe:2.3:a:dotclear:dotclear:2.6:rc:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| dotclear | dotclear | 2.6.1 | cpe:2.3:a:dotclear:dotclear:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |