GHSA-m8p2-495h-ccmhMediumCVSS 6.5

The SafeHtml annotation in Hibernate-Validator does not properly guard against XSS attacks

Published
January 8, 2020
Last Modified
September 12, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A vulnerability was found in Hibernate-Validator. The SafeHtml validator annotation fails to properly sanitize payloads consisting of potentially malicious code in HTML comments and instructions. This vulnerability can result in an XSS attack.

🎯 Affected products4

  • maven/org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator:>= 6.1.0.Alpha1, < 6.1.0.Alpha6
  • maven/org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator:>= 6.0.0.Alpha1, <= 6.0.17.Final
  • maven/org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:>= 6.1.0.Alpha1, < 6.1.0.Alpha6
  • maven/org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:>= 6.0.0.Alpha1, <= 6.0.17.Final

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