Information Exposure Affecting org.directwebremoting:dwr package, versions [,2.0.11)[3-alpha,3.0.RC3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGDIRECTWEBREMOTING-31089
  • published5 Apr 2015
  • disclosed24 Nov 2014
  • creditTakeshi Terada

Introduced: 24 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-5325  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.directwebremoting:dwr to version 2.0.11, 3.0.RC3 or higher.

Overview

org.directwebremoting:dwr is a Java library that enables Java on the server and JavaScript in a browser to interact and call each other

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

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