Description
All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMPUPPYCRAWLTOOLS-543266
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00008.html
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8aaf4ee16bbaf6204731d4770d96ebb34b258cd79b491f9cdd7f2540%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0153
EPSS Percentile
71.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-611
Status
published
Products (2)
checkstyle/checkstyle
< 8.29
com.puppycrawl.tools/checkstyle
0 - 8.29Maven
Published
Jan 30, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026