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CVE-2014-5452
CDA.xsl in HL7 C-CDA 1.1 and earlier does not anticipate the possibility of invalid C-CDA documents with crafted XML attributes, which…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
CDA.xsl in HL7 C-CDA 1.1 and earlier does not anticipate the possibility of invalid C-CDA documents with crafted XML attributes, which allows remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via a document containing a table that is improperly handled during unrestricted xsl:copy operations.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/hl7-cda-stylesheet-patches.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 69633 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/strucdoc/frs/?action=FrsReleaseView&release_id=1088 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://smartplatforms.org/2014/04/security-vulnerabilities-in-ccda-display/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1033511 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21699588 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-5339 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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