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CRITICAL 9.8 Maven

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache OpenNLP

GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg · CVE-2017-12620

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Description

When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.

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