CycloneDX Core Module Vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

CVE-2024-38374

7.5HIGH

Key Information

Vendor
Cyclonedx
Status
Cyclonedx-core-java
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 June 2024

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

cyclonedx-core-java = >= 2.1.0, < 9.0.4

References

https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java/security...
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https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java/pull/434
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https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java/pull/434...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

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