THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-13990
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-13990

Quartz vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
16.2%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
initDocumentParser in xml/XMLSchedulingDataProcessor.java in Terracotta Quartz Scheduler through 2.3.0 allows XXE attacks via a job description.
Affected vendor
Softwareag
Affected product
Quartz
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-611 — XML External Entity (XXE) Reference
Published
2019-07-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-13990

  • Confirm whether Softwareag Quartz is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-13990.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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