🛡️ CVE-2022-0265 — hazelcast

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-611 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

XML External Entity Reference in Hazelcast

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

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0265 is classified as CWE-611: XML External Entity Reference (XXE). An XML parser resolves external entities, letting a crafted document read local files or reach internal services.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0265 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • com.hazelcast:hazelcast (from 5.1-beta1 up to 5.1)
  • hazelcast

Timeline and source

Published on 4 March 2022 and last revised on 19 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
huntr.dev (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-611
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-03-04
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-19

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.hazelcast:hazelcast 5.1-beta1 5.1
hazelcast — —

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