CVE-2017-12621

Description

During Jelly (xml) file parsing with Apache Xerces, if a custom doctype entity is declared with a SYSTEM entity with a URL and that entity is used in the body of the Jelly file, during parser instantiation the parser will attempt to connect to said URL. This could lead to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks in Apache Commons Jelly before 1.0.1.

Risk Information

Base Score

9.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.75

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-12621 are fixed in Apache-commons-jelly 1.0.1	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2017-12621 are fixed in Apache-commons-jelly for Linux 1.0.1	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