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Bug 1620529 - (CVE-2018-1000632) CVE-2018-1000632 dom4j: XML Injection in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute which can impact the integrity of XML documents
CVE-2018-1000632 dom4j: XML Injection in Class: Element. Methods: addElement,...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20180701,repor...
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Depends On: 1620535 1626282 1626283 1639569 1639570 1639571 1639572 1643126
Blocks: 1620537
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Reported: 2018-08-23 02:48 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-10-25 10:30 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: dom4j 2.0.3, dom4j 2.1.1
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-08-23 02:48:41 EDT
XML Injection vulnerability was found in dom4j in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute that can result in an attacker tampering with XML documents through XML injection. This attack appear to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements in the XML document.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/48

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/e598eb43d418744c4dbf62f647dd2381c9ce9387

References:

https://ihacktoprotect.com/post/dom4j-xml-injection/
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-08-23 02:50:18 EDT
Created dom4j tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1620535]

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