GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-p9wf-3xpg-c9g5 XML External Entity Injection in PyWPS

HIGH Published 2021-09-02 Modified 2024-10-24 Official page ↗

Aliases: CVE-2021-39371
Ecosystem: PyPI
Packages: pywps
Severity: High
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses: CWE-611, CWE-91
Reviewed: 2021-08-25

Affected packages

• PyPI pywps: < 4.5.0 → fixed in 4.5.0

Description

An XML external entity (XXE) injection in PyWPS before 4.5.0 allows an attacker to view files on the application server filesystem by assigning a path to the entity. OWSLib 0.24.1 may also be affected.

Alias · CVE (1)

CVE-2021-39371 An XML external entity (XXE) injection in PyWPS before 4.4.5 allows an attacker to view files on the application server filesystem by… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness
CWE-91 XML Injection weakness

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39371 advisory
https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib/issues/790 web
https://github.com/geopython/pywps/pull/616 web
https://github.com/geopython/pywps/commit/7d6b26a2e931df2feca0b7fb24f4d01610825aee web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p9wf-3xpg-c9g5 advisory
https://github.com/geopython/pywps package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pywps/PYSEC-2021-121.yaml web
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00001.html web