CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-88789

HighCVSS 8.6
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the XSLT support extension (camel-quarkus-support-xalan) in Apache Camel Quarkus versions 3.2.0 before 3.33.3 and 3.34.0 before 3.40.0. The extension registers its own Xalan-J 2.7.x-backed TransformerFactory as the JAXP default, and Xalan-J does not honour ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD or ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET restrictions, allowing an attacker who supplies the XML document to read local files or make requests to internal network locations.

Risk Assessment

An attacker able to supply the XML document being transformed can read local files or issue requests to internal network resources, leading to data disclosure and server-side request forgery (SSRF). Applications using camel-quarkus-xslt, camel-quarkus-xslt-saxon, camel-quarkus-tika or camel-quarkus-xmlsecurity are affected.

Recommendation

Upgrade Apache Camel Quarkus to version 3.33.3 or 3.40.0, which fixes this issue. Until the upgrade, avoid processing untrusted XML documents through the xslt component.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in the XSLT support extension (camel-quarkus-support-xalan) in Apache Camel Quarkus from 3.2.0 before 3.33.3 and from 3.34.0 before 3.40.0 on all platforms allows an attacker who supplies the XML document being transformed to read local files or issue requests to internal network locations via an external entity declaration in that document. The extension supplies its own Xalan-backed TransformerFactory to the xslt component and registers it as the JAXP default. Xalan-J 2.7.x predates JAXP 1.5 and does not honour javax.xml.XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD or ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET, so the external access restrictions Apache Camel applies to the TransformerFactory it creates were not in effect. On the xslt component path this affects message bodies that reach the transformer already as a javax.xml.transform.Source; bodies of other types are converted to a SAXSource by Apache Camel with external entities and external DTD loading disabled, and are not affected. Because the factory is also the JAXP default, other code in the application obtaining one through TransformerFactory.newInstance() loses the same restrictions without error. Applications are affected if they use any of camel-quarkus-xslt, camel-quarkus-xslt-saxon, camel-quarkus-tika or camel-quarkus-xmlsecurity, each of which brings the XSLT support extension onto the classpath. For all but camel-quarkus-xslt, the exposure is limited to the JAXP default factory, since those extensions do not perform XSLT transformations themselves. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.33.3 or 3.40.0, which fixes this issue.

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