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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') (CVE-2017-7465)

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Red Hat JBoss EAP: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') (CVE-2017-7465)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/27/2018
Created
11/23/2019
Added
11/14/2019
Modified
03/07/2024

Description

It was found that the JAXP implementation used in JBoss EAP 7.0 for XSLT processing is vulnerable to code injection. An attacker could use this flaw to cause remote code execution if they are able to provide XSLT content for parsing. Doing a transform in JAXP requires the use of a 'javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory'. If the FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING feature is set to 'true', it mitigates this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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