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XXE vulnerability in Jenkins WebSphere Deployer Plugin

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 28, 2023

Package

maven org.jenkins-ci.plugins:websphere-deployer (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 1.6.1

Patched versions

None

Description

WebSphere Deployer Plugin 1.6.1 and earlier does not configure the XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. This could be exploited by a user with Job/Configure permissions to upload a specially crafted war file containing a WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xml which is parsed by the plugin.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 29, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Dec 19, 2022
Last updated Jan 28, 2023

Severity

High
7.6
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-2108

GHSA ID

GHSA-f5wx-w2f9-82gh

Source code

Credits

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