CVE-2016-6798

Description

In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the method XSS.getValidXML() uses an insecure SAX parser to validate the input string, which allows for XXE attacks in all scripts which use this method to validate user input, potentially allowing an attacker to read sensitive data on the filesystem, perform same-site-request-forgery (SSRF), port-scanning behind the firewall or DoS the application.

Risk Information

Base Score

9.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

1.343

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss 1.0.12	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss.compat 1.1.0	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss for Linux 1.0.12	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-6798,CVE-2016-5394 are fixed in Apache-org.apache.sling.xss.compat for Linux 1.1.0	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234