GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-gp32-7h29-rpxm Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle

MEDIUM Published 2019-03-14 Modified 2021-09-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2019-9658
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-611
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• Maven com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle: < 8.18 → fixed in 8.18

Description

Checkstyle prior to 8.18 loads external DTDs by default, which can potentially lead to denial of service attacks or the leaking of confidential information.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2019-9658 Checkstyle before 8.18 loads external DTDs by default. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References