CVE-2021-23901 An XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability exists in the Nutch DmozParser

2021-01-2509:25:14

CWE-611

apache

www.cve.org

9.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.016 Low

EPSS

Percentile

87.3%

JSON

An XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability was discovered in the Nutch DmozParser and is known to affect Nutch versions < 1.18. XML external entity injection (also known as XXE) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to interfere with an application’s processing of XML data. It often allows an attacker to view files on the application server filesystem, and to interact with any back-end or external systems that the application itself can access. This issue is fixed in Apache Nutch 1.18.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Apache Nutch",
    "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "1.17",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "Apache Nutch",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]