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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Jboss EAP Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference Vulnerability (CVE-2017-7503)

Description

It was found that the Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0.5 implementation of javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory is vulnerable to XXE. An attacker could use this flaw to launch DoS or SSRF attacks, or read files from the server where EAP is deployed.

Remediation

References

CVE-2017-7503

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Severity

Critical

Classification

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

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities CWE-611 CVE-2017-7503

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