Bug 2413922 (CVE-2025-64518) - CVE-2025-64518 cyclonedx-core-java: CycloneDX Core (Java): BOM validation is vulnerable to XML External Entity injection
Summary: CVE-2025-64518 cyclonedx-core-java: CycloneDX Core (Java): BOM validation is ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-64518
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-11-10 23:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-12 14:04 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-10 23:01:43 UTC 
The CycloneDX core module provides a model representation of the SBOM along with utilities to assist in creating, validating, and parsing SBOMs. Starting in version 2.1.0 and prior to version 11.0.1, the XML `Validator` used by cyclonedx-core-java was not configured securely, making the library vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection. The fix for GHSA-683x-4444-jxh8 / CVE-2024-38374 was incomplete in that it only fixed parsing of XML BOMs, but not validation. The vulnerability has been fixed in cyclonedx-core-java version 11.0.1. As a workaround, applications can reject XML documents before handing them to cyclonedx-core-java for validation. This may be an option if incoming CycloneDX BOMs are known to be in JSON format.
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