GHSA-jq8c-j47c-vvwm

Apache SOAP's RPCRouterServlet allows reading of arbitrary files over HTTP

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-40705

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	soap:soap	>= 2.2, <= 2.3.1	no fix listed

Details

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

An Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in RPCRouterServlet of Apache SOAP allows an attacker to read arbitrary files over HTTP. This issue affects Apache SOAP version 2.2 and later versions. It is unknown whether previous versions are also affected. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40705 advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/02yo04w93rdjmllz4454lvodn5xzhwhl web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/22/1 web