CVE-2024-38374

HIGH

cyclonedx-core-java 2.1.0-9.0.3 - XML External Entity Injection via XPath Expression Evaluation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The CycloneDX core module provides a model representation of the SBOM along with utilities to assist in creating, validating, and parsing SBOMs. Before deserializing CycloneDX Bill of Materials in XML format, _cyclonedx-core-java_ leverages XPath expressions to determine the schema version of the BOM. The `DocumentBuilderFactory` used to evaluate XPath expressions was not configured securely, making the library vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection. This vulnerability has been fixed in cyclonedx-core-java version 9.0.4.

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 43.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-611
Status published
Products (2)
CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java >= 2.1.0, < 9.0.4
org.cyclonedx/cyclonedx-core-java 2.1.0 - 9.0.4Maven
Published Jun 28, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026