Advisory record · GHSA-7rp6-w7mg-h8rw

XML External Entity Reference in Apache Jena

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.043 · 91st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 20 Sept 2021, 20:22 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.jena:jena-coreMaven<4.2.04.2.0
Identifiers
GHSA-7rp6-w7mg-h8rw · CVE-2021-39239
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Published
20 Sept 2021
Updated
2 Dec 2024

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Apache Jena's jena-core package, versions before 4.2.0, is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) processing. An attacker who can supply XML for Jena to parse may be able to read the contents of local files and send them to a remote server. Upgrade jena-core to 4.2.0 or later.

Written 8 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.043, the 91st percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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