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CVE-2014-6517

Public on 2014-10-15
Modified on 2014-10-16
Description

It was discovered that the StAX XML parser in the JAXP component in OpenJDK performed expansion of external parameter entities even when external entity substitution was disabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attack against applications using the StAX parser to parse untrusted XML documents.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2014-10-16 22:15 ALAS-2014-430
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2014-10-16 22:16 ALAS-2014-431
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2014-10-16 22:16 ALAS-2014-432

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N