XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting opendaylight package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OPENDAYLIGHT-5036366
  • published27 Mar 2023
  • disclosed6 Jan 2019

Introduced: 6 Jan 2019

CVE-2018-11788  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-611  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 opendaylight.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opendaylight package and not the opendaylight package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache Karaf provides a features deployer, which allows users to "hot deploy" a features XML by dropping the file directly in the deploy folder. The features XML is parsed by XMLInputFactory class. Apache Karaf XMLInputFactory class doesn't contain any mitigation codes against XXE. This is a potential security risk as an user can inject external XML entities in Apache Karaf version prior to 4.1.7 or 4.2.2. It has been fixed in Apache Karaf 4.1.7 and 4.2.2 releases.