PublicDateAtUSN: 2020-05-01 19:15:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2020-10683
PublicDate: 2020-05-01 19:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-10683
 https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4575-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Mitigation:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=958055
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]


Patches_dom4j:
upstream_dom4j: needs-triage
precise/esm_dom4j: DNE
trusty_dom4j: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_dom4j: ignored (not in esm-main list)
xenial_dom4j: released (1.6.1+dfsg.3-2ubuntu1.1)
bionic_dom4j: needed
eoan_dom4j: ignored (reached end-of-life)
focal_dom4j: needed
groovy_dom4j: ignored (reached end-of-life)
hirsute_dom4j: not-affected (2.1.3-1)
impish_dom4j: not-affected (2.1.3-1)
jammy_dom4j: not-affected (2.1.3-1)
devel_dom4j: not-affected (2.1.3-1)