CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12620

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-10-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-611

Description

When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.

Affected configurations

• apache opennlp 1.5.0 • apache opennlp 1.5.1 • apache opennlp 1.5.2 • apache opennlp 1.5.3 • apache opennlp 1.6.0 • apache opennlp 1.7.0 • apache opennlp 1.7.1 • apache opennlp 1.7.2 • apache opennlp 1.8.0 • apache opennlp 1.8.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References