HIGH 7.5 Maven
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache CXF JAX-RS
GHSA-x7xf-253v-x3w8 · CVE-2016-8739
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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.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8739
- WEB https://github.com/apache/cxf/commit/8e4970d9
- WEB https://github.com/apache/cxf/commit/9deb2d17
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868
- WEB https://github.com/apache/cxf
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
- WEB http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2016-8739.txt.asc
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