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9.8Critical

Dom4j Project Dom4j

CVE-2020-10683

dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.

What this means for your business

  • It affects Dom4j Project Dom4j. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
  • An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
  • FIRST's prediction model gives it a 7% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 93% of all known flaws.

What to do

  1. 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Dom4j Project Dom4j, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
  2. 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.

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Scoring

CVSS
9.8 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-611
Assigned by
cve@mitre.org

Dates

Published
2020-05-01
Last modified
2026-08-25
Sources
NVD

Affected products

  • Dom4j Project Dom4j- 2.0.3, 2.1.0 - 2.1.3
  • Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management9.3.3, 9.3.5
  • Oracle Application Testing Suite13.3.0.1
  • Oracle Banking Platform2.4.0 - 2.10.0
  • Oracle Business Process Management Suite12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0
  • Oracle Communications Application Session Controller3.9m0p1
  • Oracle Communications Diameter Signaling Router8.0.0 - 8.2.2
  • Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management7.3.0, 7.4.0
  • Oracle Data Integrator12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0
  • Oracle Documaker12.6.0 - 12.6.4
  • Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Integrator3.2.0
  • Oracle Enterprise Data Quality11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.3.0

As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.

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