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Ubuntu: USN-4619-1 (CVE-2018-1000632): dom4j vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4619-1 (CVE-2018-1000632): dom4j vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
08/20/2018
Created
11/10/2020
Added
11/06/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdom4j-java

References

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