Vulnerability

CVE-2021-23792
CVSS Score 9.8 critical

CVSS Vector

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

CWE

CWE-611

[CVE-2021-23792] CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')

Description

The package com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata before 3.7.1 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an insecurely initialized XML parser for reading XMP Metadata. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability if they are able to supply a file (e.g. when an online profile picture is processed) with a malicious XMP segment. If the XMP metadata of the uploaded image is parsed, then the XXE vulnerability is triggered.

See com.twelvemonkeys.imageio/imageio-metadata package information