PT-2022-23863 · Xml.Etree+1 · Xml.Etree+1

Published 2022-09-07 · Updated 2022-09-10 · CVE-2022-37189

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions DDMAL MEI2Volpiano version 0.8.2

Description The issue is related to an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability, which can lead to a Denial of Service. This occurs due to the usage of the unsafe 'xml.etree' library to parse untrusted XML input.

Recommendations For version 0.8.2, consider updating the 'xml.etree' library to a safe version or using an alternative library to parse XML input. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the parsing of untrusted XML input until a patch is available.

Fix

XXE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-611

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-37189

GHSA-6XM7-3CC5-47F9

Affected Products

Ddmal Mei2Volpiano

Xml.Etree

References · 9

• https://github.com/DDMAL/MEI2Volpiano/blob/987b70fff991235e682405f901388af0f414eaa8/mei2volpiano/mei2volpiano.py#L59 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37189 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6xm7-3cc5-47f9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37189 · Vendor Advisory
• https://pyup.io/vulnerabilities/CVE-2022-37189/50928 · Note
• https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html#xml-vulnerabilities · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/49396 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/35809 · Telegram Post
• https://github.com/DDMAL/MEI2Volpiano · Note