CVE-2020-10683
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 7.0%dom4j - security update
Published: 6/5/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10683
Description
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/dom4jfrom 0, < 2.1.3-1
- Debian/dom4jfrom 0, < 1.6.1+dfsg.3-2+deb8u2
- Maven/dom4j:dom4jfrom 0, <= 1.6.1
- Maven/org.dom4j:dom4jfrom 0, < 2.0.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (24)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10683
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-10683
- PATCHhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00061.html
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235
- WEBhttps://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/1707bf3d898a8ada3b213acb0e3b38f16eaae73d
- WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658
- WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3
- WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87
- WEBhttps://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r51f3f9801058e47153c0ad9bc6209d57a592fc0e7aefd787760911b8@%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91c64cd51e68e97d524395474eaa25362d564572276b9917fcbf5c32@%3Cdev.velocity.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb1b990d7920ae0d50da5109b73b92bab736d46c9788dd4b135cb1a51@%3Cnotifications.freemarker.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4575-1
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html