dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing ho…
Critical CVSS 9.8
Summary
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235 Issue Tracking
- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658 Patch
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3 Patch
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3 Release Notes
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235 Issue Tracking
- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658 Patch
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3 Patch
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3 Release Notes
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html Patch
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD