| Name | CVE-2020-10683 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2191-1, ELA-225-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 958055 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| dom4j (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.6.1+dfsg.3-2+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch | 1.6.1+dfsg.3-2+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 2.1.1-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.1.3-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.1.3-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.1.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - dom4j <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - dom4j <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/1707bf3d898a8ada3b213acb0e3b38f16eaae73d (the fix?)
https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658 (post-fix refactor?)