THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-10683
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-10683

Dom4j vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
7.3%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.
Affected vendor
Dom4j Project
Affected product
Dom4j
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
2020-05-01

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 7.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-10683

  • Confirm whether Dom4j Project Dom4j is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-10683.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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