VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-12620

critical
Published 2017-10-03 · Modified 2023-11-08
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache OpenNLP

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

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.

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Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.apache.opennlp:opennlp-tools>=1.5.0,<1.8.21.8.2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apacheopennlp1.5.0
apache apacheopennlp1.5.1
apache apacheopennlp1.5.2
apache apacheopennlp1.5.3
apache apacheopennlp1.6.0
apache apacheopennlp1.7.0
apache apacheopennlp1.7.1
apache apacheopennlp1.7.2
apache apacheopennlp1.8.0
apache apacheopennlp1.8.1

References

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.