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XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata package, versions [,3.7.1)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.2% (57th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMTWELVEMONKEYSIMAGEIO-2316763
  • published 13 Dec 2021
  • disclosed 7 Dec 2021
  • credit MOGWAI LABS GmbH, Timo Müller
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Introduced: 7 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-23792 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-611 Open this link in a new tab
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How to fix?

Upgrade com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata to version 3.7.1 or higher.

Overview

com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata is an ImageIO metadata module.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an insecurely initialized XML parser for reading XMP Metadata. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability if they are able to supply a file (e.g. when an online profile picture is processed) with a malicious XMP segment. If the XMP metadata of the uploaded image is parsed, then the XXE vulnerability is triggered.

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