GHSA-8c3x-hq82-gjcmHighCVSS 8.6

XXE vulnerability in XSLT parsing in `org.hl7.fhir.publisher`

Published
January 24, 2025
Last Modified
January 28, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

XSLT transforms performed by various components are vulnerable to XML external entity injections. A processed XML file with a malicious DTD tag ( ]> could produce XML containing data from the host system. This impacts use cases where org.hl7.fhir.publisher is being used to within a host where external clients can submit XML.

A previous release provided an incomplete solution revealed by new testing.

Patches

This issue has been patched as of version 1.7.4

Workarounds

None

References

Previous Advisory for Incomplete solution MITRE CWE OWASP XML External Entity Prevention Cheat Sheet

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/org.hl7.fhir.publisher:org.hl7.fhir.publisher.cli:< 1.7.4
  • maven/org.hl7.fhir.publisher:org.hl7.fhir.publisher.core:< 1.7.4

🔗 References (6)