Security Advisory

CVE-2018-11788

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-01-07 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 08:17:09
Assigner apache
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Apache Karaf provides a features deployer, which allows users to "hot deploy" a features XML by dropping the file directly in the deploy folder. The features XML is parsed by XMLInputFactory class. Apache Karaf XMLInputFactory class doesn't contain any mitigation codes against XXE. This is a potential security risk as an user can inject external XML entities in Apache Karaf version prior to 4.1.7 or 4.2.2. It has been fixed in Apache Karaf 4.1.7 and 4.2.2 releases.