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GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache OpenNLP

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2017-12620

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools >= 1.5.0, < 1.8.2 1.8.2

Details

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

When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.

References

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