CVE-2014-3104 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3104?

CVE-2014-3104 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 23 Sep 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1 before 7.1.2.15, 8.0.0 before 8.0.0.12, and 8.0.1 before 8.0.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3104?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Rational Clearcase.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3104?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-3104 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3104 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3104 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2014-6221 Weak cryptography in n/a Critical 9.4
• CVE-2014-0931 XML external entity in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2019-4059 Hardcoded credentials in Rational ClearCase High 7.5
• CVE-2015-5039 Security feature bypass in n/a High 7.4
• CVE-2013-5415 Memory corruption in n/a High 7.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-w3qg-grm5-jw49.