Description

The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in Direct Web Remoting (DWR) through 2.0.10 and 3.x through 3.0.RC2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Remediation

References

CVE-2014-5325

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2014-5325 CWE-200

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities