CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-3674

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
8.18%

95th percentile - higher than 95% of all known CVEs

Summary

Multiple XML external entity (XXE) vulnerabilities in the (1) Dom4JDriver, (2) DomDriver, (3) JDomDriver, (4) JDom2Driver, (5) SjsxpDriver, (6) StandardStaxDriver, and (7) WstxDriver drivers in XStream before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can read sensitive files from the server, such as configuration files or credentials, potentially leading to further system compromise.

Recommendation

Update XStream to version 1.4.9 or later. If updating is not possible, disable external XML entity processing in the parser configuration.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Multiple XML external entity (XXE) vulnerabilities in the (1) Dom4JDriver, (2) DomDriver, (3) JDomDriver, (4) JDom2Driver, (5) SjsxpDriver, (6) StandardStaxDriver, and (7) WstxDriver drivers in XStream before 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted XML document.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS