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Advisory record · GHSA-hwj3-m3p6-hj38

dom4j allows External Entities by default which might enable XXE attacks

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.073 · 94th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 5 Jun 2020, 16:13 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.dom4j:dom4jMaven<2.0.3 || >=2.1.0, <2.1.32.0.3, 2.1.3
dom4j:dom4jMaven<=1.6.1No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-hwj3-m3p6-hj38 · CVE-2020-10683
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Tags
Published
5 Jun 2020
Updated
8 Mar 2024

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 0.073, the 94th 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 5 Jun 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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