CVE-2023-6836
WSO2 products vulnerable to XML External Entity attack
4.6
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.17%
Description
Multiple WSO2 products have been identified as vulnerable due to an XML External Entity (XXE) attack abuses a widely available but rarely used feature of XML parsers to access sensitive information.
How to fix CVE-2023-6836
To remediate CVE-2023-6836, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Maven/org.wso2.am:wso2am—upgrade to 4.0.0-beta or later
- —upgrade to 5.2.23 or later
- —upgrade to 4.7.24 or later
- —upgrade to 2.2.12 or later
- —upgrade to 4.8.13 or later
- —upgrade to 4.7.31 or later
Is CVE-2023-6836 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (6)
- from 0, < 4.0.0-beta
- from 0, < 5.2.23
- from 0, < 4.7.24
- from 0, < 2.2.12
- from 0, < 4.8.13
- from 0, < 4.7.31
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (8)
- ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6836
- WEBgithub.com/wso2/carbon-analytics-common/commit/9478336859306d3ea13b25cb386f29c183707fde
- WEBgithub.com/wso2/carbon-commons/commit/a08a587e3dd5146121a7b47a0fdd06ddbcd903f4
- WEBgithub.com/wso2/carbon-event-processing/commit/e9953afd46a45f704de341a081f710cbdfa3f975