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Advisory record · GHSA-7g54-vgp6-jj5w

XML External Entity Reference in Apache Sling

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.037 · 89th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 17 May 2022, 02:26 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.xssMaven<1.0.121.0.12
org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.xss.compatMaven<1.1.01.1.0
Identifiers
GHSA-7g54-vgp6-jj5w · CVE-2016-6798
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Tags
Published
17 May 2022
Updated
16 Feb 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.037, the 89th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 17 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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