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CVE-2020-10683

mitre — dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks.

EPSS 7%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
48
CVSS 9.8 (NVD)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 94.4.944 × 2018.9No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: unknown+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
n/an/a–CNA

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

advisorylists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.htmlreforacle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlrefcheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.htmlrefbugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235refgithub.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3refgithub.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658refsecurity.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002advisoryusn.ubuntu.com/4575-1reforacle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlrefgithub.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87refgithub.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3reflists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3Ereflists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3Ereforacle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.htmlreforacle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.htmlreforacle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlreflists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3Ereforacle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.htmlreforacle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.htmlreforacle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html