CVE-2014-5398 | Schneider Electric Wonderware Input Validation

Schneider Electric Wonderware Information Server (WIS) Portal 4.0 SP1 through 5.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Published: 2014-08-28 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-5398 is rated Low Risk (27.4/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.31%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-5398

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 2025-11-01 0.10% 0.31% +0.21%
2 2025-03-17 0.16% 0.10% -0.06%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.16% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-5398

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 2.9 [email protected]
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-5398

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2014-5398

Impact: Per: https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-14-238-02 "WIS may allow access to local resources (files and internal resources) via unsafe parsing of XML external entities. By using specially crafted XML files, an attacker can cause these products to send the contents of local remote resources to the attacker’s server or cause a denial of service of the system. This vulnerability is not exploitable remotely and cannot be exploited without user interaction. The exploit is only triggered when a local user runs the vulnerable application and loads the malformed XML files."

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-5398

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
invensys wonderware_information_server 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:invensys:wonderware_information_server:4.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
invensys wonderware_information_server 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:invensys:wonderware_information_server:4.0:sp1:*:*:portal:*:*:*
invensys wonderware_information_server 4.5 cpe:2.3:a:invensys:wonderware_information_server:4.5:-:portal:*:*:*:*:*
invensys wonderware_information_server 5.0 cpe:2.3:a:invensys:wonderware_information_server:5.0:-:portal:*:*:*:*:*
invensys wonderware_information_server 5.5 cpe:2.3:a:invensys:wonderware_information_server:5.5:*:*:*:portal:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-5398

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