CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8739

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-08-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-08-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-611

Description

The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.

Affected configurations

• apache cxf (<= 3.0.11) • apache cxf 3.1.0 • apache cxf 3.1.1 • apache cxf 3.1.2 • apache cxf 3.1.3 • apache cxf 3.1.4 • apache cxf 3.1.5 • apache cxf 3.1.6 • apache cxf 3.1.7 • apache cxf 3.1.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References