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High · 7.5 CVE-2025-64518 EUVD-2025-50813GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r

CycloneDX Core (Java): BOM validation is vulnerable to XML External Entity injection

Published Nov 10, 2025 · Updated Nov 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

The CycloneDX core module provides a model representation of the SBOM along with utilities to assist in creating, validating, and parsing SBOMs. Starting in version 2.1.0 and prior to version 11.0.1, the XML `Validator` used by cyclonedx-core-java was not configured securely, making the library vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection. The fix for GHSA-683x-4444-jxh8 / CVE-2024-38374 was incomplete in that it only fixed parsing of XML BOMs, but not validation. The vulnerability has been fixed in cyclonedx-core-java version 11.0.1. As a workaround, applications can reject XML documents before handing them to cyclonedx-core-java for validation. This may be an option if incoming CycloneDX BOMs are known to be in JSON format.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
CycloneDX cyclonedx-core-java >= 2.1.0, <11.0.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling dependency-track +1 4.13.5-r1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java >= 2.1.0, < 11.0.1 11.0.1 GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r

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