ghsa-2363-cqg2-863c
Vulnerability from github
Published
2021-07-27 19:02
Modified
2025-02-10 15:08
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in JDOM
Details

An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request. As a workaround, to avoid external entities being expanded, one can call builder.setExpandEntities(false) and they won't be expanded.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.jdom:jdom",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "2.0.6.1",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2021-33813",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-611",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2021-07-27T19:02:41Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2021-06-16T12:15:00Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request. As a workaround, to avoid external entities being expanded, one can call `builder.setExpandEntities(false)` and they won't be expanded.",
   id: "GHSA-2363-cqg2-863c",
   modified: "2025-02-10T15:08:05Z",
   published: "2021-07-27T19:02:56Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33813",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/issues/189",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/pull/188",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/commit/dd4f3c2fc7893edd914954c73eb577f925a7d361",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EWFVYTHGILOQXUA7U3SPOERQXL7OPSZG",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
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      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00012.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00026.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb7a93e40ebeb1e0068cde0bf3834dcab46bb1ef06d6424db48ed9fd@%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbc075a4ac85e7a8e47420b7383f16ffa0af3b792b8423584735f369f@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
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      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r89b3800cfabb1e773e49425e5d4239c28a659839a2eca6af3431482e@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r845e987b7cd8efe610284958e997b84583f5a98d3394adc09e3482fe@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6db397ae7281ead825338200d1f62d2827585a70797cc9ac0c4bd23f@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5674106135bb1a6ef57483f4c63a9c44bca85d0e2a8a05895a8f1d89@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r21c406c7ed88fe340db7dbae75e58355159e6c324037c7d5547bf40b@%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/releases/tag/JDOM-2.0.6.1",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/releases",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://alephsecurity.com/vulns/aleph-2021003",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in JDOM",
}


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