PT-2018-9568 · Oracle+1 · Jaxb+1

Jwilson · Published 2018-12-20 · Updated 2019-07-01 · CVE-2018-1000844

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.1

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Square Open Source Retrofit versions prior to commit 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437

Description The issue is related to a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in JAXB, which can be exploited by an attacker to remotely read files from the file system or to perform Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).

Recommendations For Square Open Source Retrofit versions prior to commit 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437, update to a version that includes the fix committed in 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of JAXB to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XXE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-611

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000844

GHSA-J379-9JR9-W5CQ

Affected Products

Jaxb

Retrofit

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-j379-9jr9-w5cq · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000844 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/square/retrofit · Note
• https://github.com/square/retrofit/pull/2735 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000844 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j379-9jr9-w5cq · Note