CVE-2020-10683 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235 https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658 https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3 https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87 https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/ https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8