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CVE-2020-10683 - high detected in dom4j:dom4j #225

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rhicksiii91 opened this issue May 10, 2022 · 0 comments
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CVE-2020-10683 - high detected in dom4j:dom4j #225

rhicksiii91 opened this issue May 10, 2022 · 0 comments

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Package Name: dom4j:dom4j
Package Version: ['1.6.1']
Package Manager: maven
Target File: todolist-goof/todolist-web-common/pom.xml
Severity Level: high
Snyk ID: SNYK-JAVA-DOM4J-2812975
Snyk CVE: CVE-2020-10683
Snyk CWE: CWE-611
Link to issue in Snyk: https://app.snyk.io/org/rhicksiii91/project/af52ff7a-35a1-444b-9d04-2a7b33382328

Snyk Description: ## Overview
dom4j:dom4j is a flexible XML framework for Java. Note: this artifact has been deprecated for org.dom4j:dom4j.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection. By using the default SaxReader() provided by Dom4J, external DTDs and External Entities are allowed, resulting in a possible XXE.

Details

XXE Injection is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input.
XML is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. By default, many XML processors allow specification of an external entity, a URI that is dereferenced and evaluated during XML processing. When an XML document is being parsed, the parser can make a request and include the content at the specified URI inside of the XML document.

Attacks can include disclosing local files, which may contain sensitive data such as passwords or private user data, using file: schemes or relative paths in the system identifier.

For example, below is a sample XML document, containing an XML element- username.

<xml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <username>John</username>
</xml>

An external XML entity - xxe, is defined using a system identifier and present within a DOCTYPE header. These entities can access local or remote content. For example the below code contains an external XML entity that would fetch the content of /etc/passwd and display it to the user rendered by username.

<xml>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo [
   <!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd" >]>
   <username>&xxe;</username>
</xml>

Other XXE Injection attacks can access local resources that may not stop returning data, possibly impacting application availability and leading to Denial of Service.

Remediation

There is no fixed version for dom4j:dom4j.

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