Vulnerability

CVE-2018-1000632

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CVSS Score 7.5 high

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-91

References

https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/48
https://ihacktoprotect.com/post/dom4j-xml-injection/
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-1000632

[CVE-2018-1000632] CWE-91: XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)

Description

dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains a CWE-91: XML Injection vulnerability in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute that can result in an attacker tampering with XML documents through XML injection. This attack appear to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements in the XML document. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.1.1 or later.

See dom4j/dom4j package information