Eclipse RDF4j vulnerable to XML External Entitiy · CVE-2018-1000644 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Eclipse RDF4j vulnerable to XML External Entitiy

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 19, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

org.eclipse.rdf4j:rdf4j-runtime (Maven)

Affected versions

< 2.4.0

Patched versions

2.4.0

Description

Eclipse RDF4j version < 2.4.0 Milestone 2 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in RDF4j XML parser parsing RDF files that can result in the disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, server side request forgery, port scanning. This attack appear to be exploitable via Specially crafted RDF file.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 19, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical

10.0

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H