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Medium CVE-2014-5325 EUVD-2022-4196GHSA-hqw5-62gp-rqgm

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Direct Web Remoting

Published Nov 24, 2014 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by jpcert

Description

The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in Direct Web Remoting (DWR) through 2.0.10 and 3.x through 3.0.RC2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.directwebremoting:dwr < 2.0.11 2.0.11 GHSA-hqw5-62gp-rqgm
Maven org.directwebremoting:dwr >= 3.0.M1, < 3.0.RC3 3.0.RC3 GHSA-hqw5-62gp-rqgm

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