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SCA: security update for org.dom4j:dom4j (GHSA-6pcc-3rfx-4gpm)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422826

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains a CWE-91: XML Injection vulnerability in Class: Element.
 Methods: addElement, addAttribute that can result in an attacker tampering with XML documents through XML
 injection. This attack appear to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements in the
 XML document. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.1.1 or later. (CVE-2018-1000632)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6pcc-3rfx-4gpm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422826

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000632

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000632

BID: 106608

cwe: CWE-91