XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Square Retrofit · CVE-2018-1000844 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Square Retrofit

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 21, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, < 2.5.0

Patched versions

2.5.0

Description

Square Open Source Retrofit versions prior to commit 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437 contain a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in JAXB. An attacker could use this to remotely read files from the file system or to perform SSRF. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in commit 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 21, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.1

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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