Description
Versions of Apache CXF Fediz prior to 1.4.4 do not fully disable Document Type Declarations (DTDs) when either parsing the Identity Provider response in the application plugins, or in the Identity Provider itself when parsing certain XML-based parameters.
Remediation
References
http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2018-8038.txt.asc
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041220
https://github.com/apache/cxf-fediz/commit/b6ed9865d0614332fa419fe4b6d0fe81bc2e660d
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f0a6a05ec3b3a00458da43712b0ff3a2f573175d9bfb39fb0de21424%40%3Cdev.cxf.apache.org%3E
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