Advisory record · GHSA-gp32-7h29-rpxm

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.036 · 89th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 Mar 2019, 15:39 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyleMaven<8.188.18
Identifiers
GHSA-gp32-7h29-rpxm · CVE-2019-9658
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Published
14 Mar 2019
Updated
14 Mar 2024

Machine-written summary

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

Checkstyle versions before 8.18 load external DTDs by default. An attacker who can supply XML that Checkstyle parses could cause a denial of service or leak confidential information. Upgrade to Checkstyle 8.18 or later.

Written 8 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.3 Medium 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.036, the 89th percentile, on 12 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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