XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils package, versions [,3.0.24)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (19th percentile)
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NVD
4.3 medium
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Red Hat
4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-461102
  • published 6 Sep 2019
  • disclosed 21 Sep 2015
  • credit Florian Weimer

How to fix?

Upgrade org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils to version 3.0.24 or higher.

Overview

org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils is a collection of various utility classes to ease working with strings, files, command lines, XML and more.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection. org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlWriterUtil#writeComment fails to sanitize comments for a --> sequence. This means that text contained in the command string could be interpreted as XML and allow for XML injection.