CVE-2023-38693

RCE in Lucee REST endpoint

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Mar 5, 2025
Updated: Mar 6, 2025
Reserved: Jul 24, 2023

Description

Lucee Server (or simply Lucee) is a dynamic, Java based, tag and scripting language used for rapid web application development. The Lucee REST endpoint is vulnerable to RCE via an XML XXE attack. This vulnerability is fixed in Lucee 5.4.3.2, 5.3.12.1, 5.3.7.59, 5.3.8.236, and 5.3.9.173.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Luceelucee	>= 5.4.0.0, < 5.4.3.2Affected >= 5.3.12.0, < 5.3.12.1Affected < 5.3.7.59Affected >= 5.3.8.0, < 5.3.8.236Affected >= 5.3.9.0, < 5.3.9.173Affected

References

https://github.com/lucee/Lucee/security/advisories/GHSA-vwjx-mmwm-pwrf

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