Bug 1151364 (CVE-2014-6517) - CVE-2014-6517 OpenJDK: StAX parser parameter entity XXE (JAXP, 8039533)
Summary: CVE-2014-6517 OpenJDK: StAX parser parameter entity XXE (JAXP, 8039533)
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2014-6517
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1148726 1167418
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Reported: 2014-10-10 08:47 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:07 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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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.
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Last Closed: 2015-09-03 01:24:51 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1620 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk security and bug fix update 2014-10-15 05:26:31 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1633 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.7.0-openjdk security and bug fix update 2014-10-15 00:47:46 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1634 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk security and bug fix update 2014-10-15 06:09:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1636 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update 2014-10-15 07:03:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1657 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: java-1.7.0-oracle security update 2017-12-15 15:36:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1658 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: java-1.6.0-sun security update 2017-12-15 15:35:40 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2014-10-10 08:47:47 UTC 
It was discovered that the StAX XML parser in the JAXP (Java API for XML Processing) component of OpenJDK failed to properly honor setting indicating (defined using isSupportingExternalEntities / IS_SUPPORTING_EXTERNAL_ENTITIES property) whether external XML entities should be processed.  External parameter entities were processed even when the StAX parser was configured to not process external entities.  An attacker able to provide a specially-crafted XML file to an application using StAX parser could use this flaw to perform XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attack.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2014-10-14 20:13:13 UTC 
Public now via Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2014.  Fixed in Oracle Java SE 6u85, 7u71, and 8u25.

External References:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html#AppendixJAVA
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 20:48:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1633 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1633.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 01:27:17 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2014:1620 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1620.html
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 02:09:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1634 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1634.html
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-15 03:03:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1636 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1636.html
Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2014-10-15 09:36:34 UTC 
IssueDescription:

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.
Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2014-10-16 13:30:52 UTC 
This issue was fixed in IcedTea6 1.13.5 and IcedTea7 2.5.3:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-October/029884.html
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2014-October/029889.html

Upstream OpenJDK commit:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jaxp/rev/6ceccd58477d
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-16 23:02:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1658 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1658.html
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-16 23:12:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1657 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1657.html
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