🛡️ CVE-2023-4218
🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-611 NVD
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In Eclipse IDE versions < 2023-09 (4.29) some files with xml content are parsed vulnerable against all sorts of XXE attacks. The user just needs to open any evil project or update an open project with a vulnerable file (for example for review a foreign repository or patch).

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-611
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-09
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
eclipse-ide 4.29
org.eclipse.core.runtime 3.29.0
org.eclipse.jdt:org.eclipse.jdt.ui 3.30.0
org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.core.runtime 3.29.0
org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.jface 3.31.0
org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.platform 4.29.0
org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.ui.forms 3.13.0
org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.ui.ide 3.21.100
org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.ui.workbench 3.130.0
org.eclipse.platform:org.eclipse.urischeme 1.3.100
pde 3.13.2400

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/eclipse-emf/org.eclipse.emf/issues/10
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/eclipse-emf/org.eclipse.emf/issues/10

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