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🛡️ GHSA-fgq9-fc3q-vqmw — dom4j (CVE-2023-45960)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-776 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Withdrawn Advisory: dom4j XML Entity Expansion vulnerability

Withdrawn Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because [the underlying vulnerability could not be reproduced](https://github.com/joker-xiaoyan/XXE-SAXReader/issues/1#issuecomment-1783780581). This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

An issue in dom4.j org.dom4.io.SAXReader v.2.1.4 and before allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via the setFeature function.

Weakness class

GHSA-fgq9-fc3q-vqmw is classified as CWE-776: XML Entity Expansion. Nested entity definitions expand enormously when parsed, consuming memory and CPU.

Affected software

GHSA-fgq9-fc3q-vqmw is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.dom4j:dom4j

Timeline and source

Published on 25 October 2023 and last revised on 30 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
dom4j.github.io (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-776
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-10-25
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-11-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.dom4j:dom4j

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