CVE-2020-10683 (GCVE-0-2020-10683)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-05-01 18:55
Modified
2024-08-04 11:06
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html x_refsource_MISC
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
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