CVE-2014-3781

Exp

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.

Published: 2014-06-11 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

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.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-3781

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-3781

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)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-3781

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-3781

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-3781

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu 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

Affected software / configurations for 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-3781

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