PT-2018-9547 · Softwarex · Softwarex

Prodigysml · Published 2018-12-20 · Updated 2019-09-24 · CVE-2018-1000823

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

10

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SoftwareX versions prior to 5.0.0-RC4

Description The issue is related to a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the XML Parser for the REST Server. This can lead to the disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), and port scanning.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.0.0-RC4, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

XXE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-611

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000823

GHSA-JXM5-5XCW-H57Q

Affected Products

Softwarex

References · 11

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000823 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jxm5-5xcw-h57q · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/commit/b210f9fbf379b68842f2b055dda80d7e7479e96f · Note
• https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/commit/1c3f0aec14d00bdbca175713af70cb7c7b868e9f · Note
• https://github.com/eXist-db/exist · Note
• https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/2247 · Note
• https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/issues/2180 · Note
• https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/pull/2243 · Note
• https://0dd.zone/2018/10/27/exist-XXE · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxm5-5xcw-h57q · Note