CVE-2025-53689

Apache Jackrabbit: XXE vulnerability in jackrabbit-spi-commons

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Jul 14, 2025
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Jul 8, 2025

Description

Blind XXE Vulnerabilities in jackrabbit-spi-commons and jackrabbit-core in Apache Jackrabbit < 2.23.2 due to usage of an unsecured document build to load privileges.

Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 2.20.17 (Java 8), 2.22.1 (Java 11) or 2.23.2 (Java 11, beta versions), which fix this issue. Earlier versions (up to 2.20.16) are not supported anymore, thus users should update to the respective supported version.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache JackrabbitApache Software Foundation	2.20.0 to before 2.20.17Affected 2.22.0 to before 2.22.1Affected 2.23.0-beta to before 2.23.2-betaAffected

References

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