hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core · Security

XXE vulnerability in XSLT parsing in `org.hl7.fhir.core`

GHSA ID
GHSA-gr3c-q7xf-47vh
CVE ID
CVE-2024-52007
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
8.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4
7.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

Description

Summary

XSLT parsing performed by various components are vulnerable to XML external entity injections. A processed XML file with a malicious DTD tag ( ]> could produce XML containing data from the host system. This impacts use cases where org.hl7.fhir.core is being used to within a host where external clients can submit XML.

Details

This is related to https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-6cr6-ph3p-f5rf, in which its fix ( https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/issues/1571, https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/pull/1717) was incomplete.

References

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/611.html https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#jaxp-documentbuilderfactory-saxparserfactory-and-dom4j

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