CVE-2016-6798

2017-07-1800:00:00

apache

www.cve.org

9.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

40.5%

JSON

In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the method XSS.getValidXML() uses an insecure SAX parser to validate the input string, which allows for XXE attacks in all scripts which use this method to validate user input, potentially allowing an attacker to read sensitive data on the filesystem, perform same-site-request-forgery (SSRF), port-scanning behind the firewall or DoS the application.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Apache Sling",
    "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "prior to 1.0.12"
      }
    ]
  }
]