CVE-2019-17637

high

Description

In all versions of Eclipse Web Tools Platform through release 3.18 (2020-06), XML and DTD files referring to external entities could be exploited to send the contents of local files to a remote server when edited or validated, even when external entity resolution is disabled in the user preferences.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00016.html

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458571

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-15

Updated: 2023-01-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High