Vulnerability CVE-2017-12620


Published: 2017-10-02   Modified: 2017-10-03

Description:
When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Apache OpenNLP XXE vulnerability
Jörn Kottmann
03.10.2017

Type:

CWE-611

(Information Exposure Through XML External Entity Reference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> Opennlp 

 References:
http://opennlp.apache.org/news/cve-2017-12620.html

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