CVE-2016-8739

HIGH7.5EPSS 2.7%

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache CXF JAX-RS

Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 2/22/2024

Description

The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (12)