XML External Entity (XXE) Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rh-java-common-dom4j.src (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RHJAVACOMMONDOM4JSRC-14922940
- published14 Jan 2026
- disclosed15 Apr 2020
Introduced: 15 Apr 2020
CVE-2020-10683 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-java-common-dom4j.src package and not the rh-java-common-dom4j.src package as distributed by RHEL.
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10683
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8@%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32@%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51@%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html
- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html