ghsa-jcwr-x25h-x5fh
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-09-25 21:30
Modified
2024-05-03 20:26
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
codehaus-plexus vulnerable to XML injection
Details

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.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Maven",
            name: "org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "3.0.24",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2022-4245",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-611",
         "CWE-91",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2023-09-26T19:38:53Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2023-09-25T20:15:10Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "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. ",
   id: "GHSA-jcwr-x25h-x5fh",
   modified: "2024-05-03T20:26:14Z",
   published: "2023-09-25T21:30:26Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4245",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/issues/3",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/f933e5e78dc2637e485447ed821fe14904f110de",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2135",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3906",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4245",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149843",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-461102",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "codehaus-plexus vulnerable to XML injection",
}


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