GHSA-5p52-j8pw-j7x5

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in bedework:bw-webdav

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-20000

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.bedework:bw-webdav	>= 4.0.1, < 4.0.3	4.0.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Apereo Bedework bw-webdav before 4.0.3 allows XXE attacks, as demonstrated by an invite-reply document that reads a local file, related to webdav/servlet/common/MethodBase.java and webdav/servlet/common/PostRequestPars.java.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20000 advisory
https://github.com/Bedework/bw-webdav/pull/1 web
https://github.com/Bedework/bw-webdav package
https://github.com/Bedework/bw-webdav/compare/bw-webdav-4.0.2...bw-webdav-4.0.3 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5p52-j8pw-j7x5 advisory