CVE-2020-10683
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 7.3% (pctl 94)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 7.27% — more likely to be exploited than 94% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-611 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2020-05-01 |
| Last modified | 2026-08-25 |
Affected (38)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| dom4j project | dom4j |
| netapp | oncommand api services |
| netapp | oncommand workflow automation |
| netapp | snap creator framework |
| netapp | snapcenter |
| netapp | snapmanager |
| opensuse | leap |
| oracle | agile product lifecycle management |
| oracle | application testing suite |
| oracle | banking platform |
| oracle | business process management suite |
| oracle | communications application session controller |
| oracle | communications diameter signaling router |
| oracle | communications unified inventory management |
| oracle | data integrator |
| oracle | documaker |
| oracle | endeca information discovery integrator |
| oracle | enterprise data quality |
| oracle | enterprise manager base platform |
| oracle | financial services analytical applications infrastructure |
| oracle | flexcube core banking |
| oracle | fusion middleware |
| oracle | health sciences empirica signal |
| oracle | health sciences information manager |
| oracle | insurance policy administration j2ee |
| oracle | insurance rules palette |
| oracle | jdeveloper |
| oracle | primavera p6 enterprise project portfolio management |
| oracle | rapid planning |
| oracle | retail customer management and segmentation foundation |
| oracle | retail integration bus |
| oracle | retail order broker |
| oracle | retail price management |
| oracle | retail xstore point of service |
| oracle | storagetek tape analytics sw tool |
| oracle | utilities framework |
| oracle | webcenter portal |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235
- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32%40%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51%40%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1/
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
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