# CVE-2014-3648: Server-side request forgery in Jboss Aerogear

> Attackers can exploit user-controlled device tokens to trigger Server-Side Request Forgery, enabling denial of service or using the server as an anonymizer.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Jul 2022
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jh99-8qr7-cf7m

## What is CVE-2014-3648?

CVE-2014-3648 is a high-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Jboss Aerogear, published on 1 Jul 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided by deviceToken. But this is user controlled. If a bogus applications is registered with bad deviceTokens, one can generate endless exceptions when those endpoints can't be reached or can slow the server down by purposefully wasting it's time with slow endpoints. Similarly, one can provide whatever HTTP end point they want. This turns the server into a DDOS vector or an anonymizer for the posting of malware and so on.

Weakness: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3648?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Redhat Jboss Aerogear.

## How do I fix CVE-2014-3648?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-3648 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2014-3648 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3648 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Jboss Aerogear

- [CVE-2014-3649](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3649/): Cross-site scripting in AeroGear (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2014-3650](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3650/): Cross-site scripting in Jboss Aerogear (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-3648 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2014-3648 is a high-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Jboss Aerogear, published on 1 Jul 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3648 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Jboss Aerogear. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3648/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3648/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3648
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3648
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3648

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3648/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.