GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-vc3x-72q4-g3p5 XML External Entity Reference in jbpmmigration

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-13 Modified 2022-11-04 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-7545
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.jbpm.jbpm5:jbpmmigration
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-611
Reviewed
2022-11-04

Affected packages

• Maven org.jbpm.jbpm5:jbpmmigration: <= 0.15 (no fix yet)

Description

It was discovered that the XmlUtils class in jbpmmigration performed expansion of external parameter entities while parsing XML files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server and, potentially, perform other more advanced XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks. The related jbpm-designer project removed use of jbpmmigration completely as a result.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-7545 It was discovered that the XmlUtils class in jbpmmigration 6.5 performed expansion of external parameter entities while parsing XML files. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References