[GHSA-m8p2-495h-ccmh] The SafeHtml annotation in Hibernate-Validator does not properly guard against XSS attacks

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• Affected products

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Based on our analysis of commits and testing, we have confirmed that this vulnerability is present in the following versions which are not reported in GitHub Advisory Database:
6.0.0.Alpha1 through 6.0.17.Final

We reached out to the corresponding CNA by email regarding this issue, but no reply has been received so far.

[Reasons]
The issue was fixed in version 6.0.18.Final, as indicated by the following commit:
hibernate/hibernate-validator@20d7295

We examine all available versions of org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator listed on Maven Repository to ensure no affected versions are overlooked.
https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate.validator/hibernate-validator

We have developed and tested PoCs that reliably reproduce the vulnerability in all the affected versions listed above.
For 6.0.0.Alpha1 to 6.0.4.Final, the pocs are: https://github.com/poc-effectiveness/PoCAdaptation/tree/main/Adapted/CVE-2019-10219
For other versions, the pocs are: https://github.com/poc-effectiveness/PoCAdaptation/tree/main/Origin/CVE-2019-10219/exploit

Please let us know if any additional information or evidence is required.

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We have already confirmed with Red Hat regarding the affected versions of hibernate-validator, and the corresponding changes have been made as documented in the CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10219.

Please let us know if there are any further updates or actions required.