CVE-2017-12621

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 27, 2017
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Aug 7, 2017

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache Commons JellyApache Software Foundation	1.0Affected

References

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JELLY-293
[dev] 20170927 [SECURITY] CVE-2017-12621 Apache Commons Jelly connects to URL with custom doctype definitions.mailing-list
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