XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting rh-maven36-byte-buddy package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RHMAVEN36BYTEBUDDY-5952492
  • published10 Oct 2023
  • disclosed6 Oct 2023

Introduced: 6 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-42445  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-611  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 rh-maven36-byte-buddy.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-maven36-byte-buddy package and not the rh-maven36-byte-buddy package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. In some cases, when Gradle parses XML files, resolving XML external entities is not disabled. Combined with an Out Of Band XXE attack (OOB-XXE), just parsing XML can lead to exfiltration of local text files to a remote server. Gradle parses XML files for several purposes. Most of the time, Gradle parses XML files it generated or were already present locally. Only Ivy XML descriptors and Maven POM files can be fetched from remote repositories and parsed by Gradle. In Gradle 7.6.3 and 8.4, resolving XML external entities has been disabled for all use cases to protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will now refuse to parse XML files that have XML external entities.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1