CVE-2014-2730
Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1-SP2, 2013, and Office for Mac 2011 - Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion
Title source: llmDescription
The XML parser in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013, and Office for Mac 2011, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and persistent application hang) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, as demonstrated by a crafted text/plain e-mail message to Outlook, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531722/100/0/threaded
Scores
EPSS
0.1154
EPSS Percentile
95.6%
Details
CWE
CWE-399
Status
published
Products (4)
microsoft/office
2007 sp3
microsoft/office
2010 sp1 (4 CPE variants)
microsoft/office
2011
microsoft/office
2013 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Apr 05, 2014
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026