GHSA-vjv6-gq77-3mjw: org.mapfish.print:print-lib (CVE-2020-15232)

XXE attack in Mapfish Print

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.013 · 71st percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 7 Jul 2020, 16:32 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
org.mapfish.print:print-lib	Maven	>=3.0, <3.24	3.24
org.mapfish.print:print-servlet	Maven	>=3.0, <3.24	3.24
org.mapfish.print:print-standalone	Maven	>=3.0, <3.24	3.24

Identifiers

GHSA-vjv6-gq77-3mjw · CVE-2020-15232

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-611

Machine-written summary

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

Mapfish Print versions 3.0 up to 3.24 (print-lib, print-servlet and print-standalone) are vulnerable to an XML External Entity (XXE) attack via the provided SLD style. The source gives few details about what precondition an attacker needs or exactly what they can read or do. Upgrade print-lib, print-servlet and print-standalone to version 3.24 or later. No workaround is listed.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.3	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.013, the 71st percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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