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Apache Camel security advisory

CVE-2017-5643

Apache Camel's Validation Component is vulnerable against SSRF via remote DTDs and XXE

Description

The Validation Component of Apache Camel evaluates DTD headers of XML stream sources, although a validation against XML schemas (XSD) is executed. Remote attackers can use this feature to make Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks by sending XML documents with remote DTDs URLs or XML External Entities (XXE). The vulnerability is not given for SAX or StAX sources.

Mitigation

2.17.x users should upgrade to 2.17.6, 2.18.x users should upgrade to 2.18.3.

Credit

This issue was discovered by Franz Forsthofer

Notes

The JIRA tickets https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-10894 refers to the various commits that resolved the issue, and have more details.

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