Bug 1620021 (CVE-2018-1000652)

Summary:	CVE-2018-1000652 jabref: XXE in MsBibImporter resulting in information disclosure, DoS and other unspecified impact
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	mefoster, tomspur
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-08-22 08:35:37 UTC

JabRef version <=4.3.1 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in MsBibImporter XML Parser that can result in disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, server side request forgery, port scanning. This attack appear to be exploitable via Specially crafted MsBib file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 89f855d.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/4229

References:

https://0dd.zone/2018/08/08/JabRef-XXE/

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-08-22 08:36:37 UTC

Created jabref tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1620022]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:36:14 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.