Bug 1620021 (CVE-2018-1000652) - CVE-2018-1000652 jabref: XXE in MsBibImporter resulting in information disclosure, DoS and other unspecified impact
Summary: CVE-2018-1000652 jabref: XXE in MsBibImporter resulting in information disclo...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-1000652
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1620022
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-08-22 08:35 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:36:14 UTC
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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.
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