CVE-2020-9352

CRITICAL

SmartClient 12.0 - Unauthenticated XML External Entity Injection via Developer Console Operations

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in SmartClient 12.0. Unauthenticated exploitation of blind XXE can occur in the downloadWSDL feature by sending a POST request to /tools/developerConsoleOperations.jsp with a valid payload in the _transaction parameter. NOTE: the documentation states "These tools are, by default, available to anyone ... so they should only be deployed into a trusted environment. Alternately, the tools can easily be restricted to administrators or end users by protecting the tools path with normal authentication and authorization mechanisms on the web server."

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0189
EPSS Percentile 76.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-611
Status published
Products (1)
smartclient/smartclient 12.0
Published Feb 23, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026