CVEs-PoC/2014/CVE-2014-6259.md

### [CVE-2014-6259](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6259)
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### Description

Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka ZEN-15414, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/449452
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dHAc4PxUbs-4Dxzm1wSCE0sMz5UCMY6SW3PlMHSyuuQ/edit?usp=sharing

#### Github
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