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Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Dragonfly

High
joshuasing published GHSA-6x3m-96qp-mmxv Dec 23, 2022

Package

maven dev.hypera:Dragonfly (Maven)

Affected versions

0.3.0-SNAPSHOT

Patched versions

0.3.1-SNAPSHOT

Description

Dragonfly v0.3.0-SNAPSHOT fails to properly configure the DocumentBuilderFactory to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks when parsing maven-metadata.xml files provided by external Maven repositories during "SNAPSHOT" version resolution.

Workarounds

Dragonfly only parses XML in version 0.3.0-SNAPSHOT when SNAPSHOT versions are being resolved, to avoid this vulnerability avoid trying to resolve SNAPSHOT versions.

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Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2022-41967

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