Description
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.
References (20)
Core 20
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0696
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-611
Status
published
Products (49)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
dom4j/dom4j
0Maven
dom4j_project/dom4j
< 2.0.3
netapp/oncommand_api_services
netapp/oncommand_workflow_automation
netapp/snap_creator_framework
netapp/snapcenter
netapp/snapmanager
(2 CPE variants)
opensuse/leap
15.1
oracle/agile_plm
9.3.3
... and 39 more
Published
May 01, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026