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CVE-2023-4218

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Description

In Eclipse IDE versions < 2023-09 (4.29) some files with xml content are parsed vulnerable against all sorts of XXE attacks. The user just needs to open any evil project or update an open project with a vulnerable file (for example for review a foreign repository or patch).

References

https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/8

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform/pull/761

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/commit/f243cf0a28785b89b7c50bf4e1cce48a917d89bd

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/commit/bf71db5ddcb967c0863dad4745367b54f49e06ba

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.buildtools/pull/45

https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/pull/667/

https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/pull/632/

https://github.com/eclipse-jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui/commit/13675b1f8a74f47de4da89ed0ded6af7c21dfbec

https://github.com/eclipse-jdt/eclipse.jdt.core/commit/38dd2a878f45cdb3d8d52090f1d6d1b532fd4c4d

https://github.com/eclipse-emf/org.eclipse.emf/issues/10

https://github.com/eclipse-cdt/cdt/commit/c7169b3186d2fef20f97467c3e2ad78e2943ed1b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-09

Updated: 2023-11-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00062

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