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Red Hat JBoss EAP: XML External Entity vulnerability in default SAX parser (CVE-2020-10683)

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Red Hat JBoss EAP: XML External Entity vulnerability in default SAX parser (CVE-2020-10683)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/01/2020
Created
06/04/2020
Added
06/03/2020
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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