CVE-2018-1000632

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190530-0001/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJULAHVR3I5SX7OSMXAG75IMNSAYOXGA/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IOOVVCRQE6ATFD2JM2EMDXOQXTRIVZGP/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00028.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d7d960b2778e35ec9b4d40c8efd468c7ce7163bcf6489b633491c89f%40%3Cdev.maven.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9d4c1af6f702c3d6d6f229de57112ddccac8ce44446a01b7937ab9e0%40%3Ccommits.maven.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f6e120e6ed473f4e00dde4c398fc6698eb383bd7857d20513e989ce%40%3Cdev.maven.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7e9e78f0e4288fac6591992836d2a80d4df19161e54bd71ab4b8e458%40%3Cdev.maven.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5a020ecaa3c701f408f612f7ba2ee37a021644c4a39da2079ed3ddbc%40%3Ccommits.maven.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4a77652531d62299a30815cf5f233af183425db8e3c9a824a814e768%40%3Cdev.maven.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/00571f362a7a2470fba50a31282c65637c40d2e21ebe6ee535a4ed74%40%3Ccommits.maven.apache.org%3E

https://ihacktoprotect.com/post/dom4j-xml-injection/

https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/48

https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/e598eb43d418744c4dbf62f647dd2381c9ce9387

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1162

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1161

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1160

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1159

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0380

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0365

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0364

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0362

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-20

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High