GHSA-6pcc-3rfx-4gpm

Dom4j contains a XML Injection vulnerability

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2018-1000632
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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. Note: This advisory applies to `dom4j:dom4j` version 1.x legacy artifacts. To resolve this a change to the latest version of `org.dom4j:dom4j` is recommended.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.dom4j:dom4jintroduced 0, fixed 2.0.3
Maven · org.dom4j:dom4jintroduced 2.1.0, fixed 2.1.1
Maven · dom4j:dom4jintroduced 0, last affected 1.6.1

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database