Information Exposure Affecting org.dspace:dspace-xmlui package, versions [4.0,6.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGDSPACE-2965598
  • published2 Aug 2022
  • disclosed2 Aug 2022
  • creditDavid Cavrenne

Introduced: 2 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-31190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.dspace:dspace-xmlui to version 6.4 or higher.

Overview

org.dspace:dspace-xmlui is a web-based user interface based upon Apache Cocoon.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the generate() functions of cocoon/DSpaceMETSGenerator.java and cocoon/DSpaceOREGenerator.java, which expose metadata on withdrawn items in the mets.xml object. An attacker in possession of the handle/URL of a withdrawn item can retrieve the metadata.

Note: This vulnerability does not impact the JSPUI or versions 7.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1