Advisory record · GHSA-9qcf-c26r-x5rf

XML external entity injection in Terracotta Quartz Scheduler

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.17 · 97th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.17 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 1 Jul 2020, 17:55 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.quartz-scheduler:quartzMaven<2.3.22.3.2
Identifiers
GHSA-9qcf-c26r-x5rf · CVE-2019-13990
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Published
1 Jul 2020
Updated
15 Oct 2024

Machine-written summary

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

Quartz Scheduler (org.quartz-scheduler:quartz) versions before 2.3.2 are vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE) injection in the XML scheduling data processor, triggered through a job description. An attacker who can supply XML job data may be able to read local files or trigger server-side requests. Upgrade to version 2.3.2 or later.

Written 8 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.17, the 97th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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