Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in OpenSAML
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 13, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Feb 14, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 13, 2022
Reviewed
Jul 7, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
The (1) BasicParserPool, (2) StaticBasicParserPool, (3) XML Decrypter, and (4) SAML Decrypter in Shibboleth OpenSAML-Java before 2.6.1 set the expandEntityReferences property to true, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML DOCTYPE declaration.
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