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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Jboss EAP Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference Vulnerability (CVE-2017-7464)

Description

It was found that the JAXP implementation used in JBoss EAP 7.0 for SAX and DOM parsing is vulnerable to certain XXE flaws. An attacker could use this flaw to cause DoS, SSRF, or information disclosure if they are able to provide XML content for parsing.

Remediation

References

CVE-2017-7464

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Severity

Critical

Classification

CVE-2017-7464 CWE-611 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Tags

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