CVE-2014-5452

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2014-5452 · Published 02/09/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-5452 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting c-cda (hl7).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
c-cda hl7	`≤ 1.1`	No fix 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.

References

gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/strucdoc/frs · Patch
motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2014/04/hl7-cda-stylesheet-patches.html · Patch
smartplatforms.org/2014/04/security-vulnerabilities-in-ccda-display · Exploit
www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss
securityfocus.com/bid/69633
securitytracker.com/id/1033511

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