GHSA-j379-9jr9-w5cq

XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Square Retrofit

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2018-1000844

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit	>= 2.0.0, < 2.5.0	2.5.0

Details

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

Square Open Source Retrofit versions prior to commit 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437 contain a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in JAXB. An attacker could use this to remotely read files from the file system or to perform SSRF. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in commit 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000844 advisory
https://github.com/square/retrofit/pull/2735 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j379-9jr9-w5cq advisory
https://github.com/square/retrofit package