CVE-2018-17198

CRITICAL

Apache Roller < 5.1.2 - Server-Side Request Forgery via XML-RPC External Entity Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) and File Enumeration vulnerability in Apache Roller 5.2.1, 5.2.0 and earlier unsupported versions relies on Java SAX Parser to implement its XML-RPC interface and by default that parser supports external entities in XML DOCTYPE, which opens Roller up to SSRF / File Enumeration vulnerability. Note that this vulnerability exists even if Roller XML-RPC interface is disable via the Roller web admin UI. Mitigation: There are a couple of ways you can fix this vulnerability: 1) Upgrade to the latest version of Roller, which is now 5.2.2 2) Or, edit the Roller web.xml file and comment out the XML-RPC Servlet mapping as shown below: <!-- <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>XmlRpcServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/roller-services/xmlrpc</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> -->

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0104
EPSS Percentile 77.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-918
Status published
Products (3)
apache/roller 5.2.0 (6 CPE variants)
apache/roller 5.2.1
apache/roller < 5.1.2
Published May 28, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026