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Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2020-10683

CRITICAL9.8

dom4j before 2

Published May 1, 2020

Modified 1 years ago

No fix available

Details

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

ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235 WEBhttps://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658 WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3 WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87 WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3 WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/ADVISORYhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10683 WEBhttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

LowAC:L

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

UnchangedS:U

Impact

Confidentiality

HighC:H

Integrity

HighI:H

Availability

HighA:H

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

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Timeline

PublishedMay 1, 2020

ModifiedAug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-10683 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence