GHSA-6xq8-pvg4-3mf3

Eclipse RDF4j vulnerable to XML External Entity

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2018-1000644

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	org.eclipse.rdf4j:rdf4j-runtime	< 2.4.0	2.4.0

Details

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

Eclipse RDF4j version < 2.4.0 Milestone 2 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in RDF4j XML parser parsing RDF files that can result in the disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, server side request forgery, port scanning. This attack appear to be exploitable via Specially crafted RDF file.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000644 advisory
https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j/issues/1056 web
https://0dd.zone/2018/08/05/rdf4j-XXE web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6xq8-pvg4-3mf3 advisory
https://github.com/eclipse/rdf4j package