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XML Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dom4j  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-DOM4J-452921
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed20 Aug 2018
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Introduced: 20 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-1000632  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-91  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dom4j package and not the dom4j package as distributed by Ubuntu.

dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains a CWE-91: XML Injection vulnerability in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute that can result in an attacker tampering with XML documents through XML injection. This attack appear to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements in the XML document. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.1.1 or later.

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