GHSA-99wh-973f-779p

XML External Entity Reference in Hazelcast

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2022-0265

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	com.hazelcast:hazelcast	>= 5.1-beta1, < 5.1	5.1

Details

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

The AbstractXmlConfigRootTagRecognizer() function makes use of SAXParser generated from a SAXParserFactory with no FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING set, allowing for XXE attacks.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0265 advisory
https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/pull/20407 web
https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast/commit/4d6b666cd0291abd618c3b95cdbb51aa4208e748 web
https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast web
https://huntr.dev/bounties/d63972a2-b910-480a-a86b-d1f75d24d563 web