CVE-2016-6798
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
XML External Entity Reference in Apache Sling
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.xss | <1.0.12 | 1.0.12 |
| Maven | org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.xss.compat | <1.1.0 | 1.1.0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apache | sling | {"endIncluding":"1.0.10"} | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99873
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b72c3a511592ec70729b3ec2d29302b6ce87bbeab62d4745617a6bd0%40%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6798
- https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-xss/commit/de32b144ad2be3367559f6184d560db42a220529
- https://github.com/jensdietrich/xshady-release/tree/main/CVE-2016-6798
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b72c3a511592ec70729b3ec2d29302b6ce87bbeab62d4745617a6bd0@%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E
CWEs
CWE-611
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.