GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache OpenNLP

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2017-12620
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-toolsintroduced 1.5.0, fixed 1.8.2

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database