CVE-2017-12620

Critical

Published: 03/10/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

CVE-2017-12620 is a vulnerability related to XXE attacks that can occur when loading models or dictionaries containing XML in the Apache OpenNLP library. This issue affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to attacks that could lead to data disclosure or unauthorized operations if they use untrusted data sources.

Recommendation

It is recommended to avoid loading models or dictionaries from untrusted sources and to update to the latest version of Apache OpenNLP to minimize risk.

Original NVD description (English source)

When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.