What is GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg?

GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache OpenNLP

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg cover?

GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2017-12620. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg?

GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg?

GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg affects 1 product, including: maven/org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools:\u003e= 1.5.0, \u003c= 1.8.1.

GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpgCriticalCVSS 9.8

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache OpenNLP

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 17, 2022

Last Modified

January 27, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2017-12620 →

📋 Description

When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.

🎯 Affected products1

maven/org.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools:>= 1.5.0, <= 1.8.1

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12620
http://opennlp.apache.org/news/cve-2017-12620.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h22x-hm8g-rxpg