FKIE_CVE-2022-4245

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-25 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:20
Severity
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
A flaw was found in codehaus-plexus. The org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlWriterUtil#writeComment fails to sanitize comments for a --> sequence. This issue means that text contained in the command string could be interpreted as XML and allow for XML injection.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2135Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3906Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4245Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149843Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2135Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3906Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4245Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149843Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
codehaus-plexus plexus-utils *
redhat integration_camel_k *
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