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SCA: security update for org.directwebremoting:dwr (GHSA-hqw5-62gp-rqgm)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 415902

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2014-5325)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqw5-62gp-rqgm

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 415902

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-5325

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5325

BID: 71093

cwe: CWE-200