eclipse/lyo · Security

XML External Entity Reference in Eclipse Lyo

GHSA ID
GHSA-6296-mvgp-27hp
CVE ID
CVE-2021-41042
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
4.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v3
4.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Description

In Eclipse Lyo versions 1.0.0 to 4.1.0, a TransformerFactory is initialized with the defaults that do not restrict DTD loading when working with RDF/XML. This allows an attacker to cause an external DTD to be retrieved.

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