GHSA-2363-cqg2-863cHighCVSS 7.5

XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in JDOM

Published
July 27, 2021
Last Modified
September 16, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request. As a workaround, to avoid external entities being expanded, one can call builder.setExpandEntities(false) and they won't be expanded.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.jdom:jdom2:< 2.0.6.1
  • maven/org.jdom:jdom:<= 2.0.2

🔗 References (22)