CVE-2016-8739

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8739
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8739.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8739
Aliases
Published
2017-08-10T18:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-24T10:30:24Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/cxf

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/cxf
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
6c7df35913ce3fc6ec8f5dc6c6074b187f751aa6
Introduced
a04a1e06f7fffc5f145e33c6832f31b04782516b
Last Affected
32a346e82042e99336732056e2ec81ebc27f075e
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.0.11"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.1"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.2"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.5"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.5"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.6"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.6"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.7"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.7"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:3.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "3.1.8"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "3.1.8"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.1.0
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.5
3.1.6
3.1.7
3.1.8
cxf-2.*
cxf-2.1
cxf-2.1.2
cxf-2.2
cxf-2.2.1
cxf-2.2.2
cxf-2.3.0
cxf-2.4.0
cxf-2.5.0
cxf-2.5.1
cxf-2.6.0
cxf-2.6.1
cxf-2.7.0
cxf-2.7.1
cxf-2.7.2
cxf-3.*
cxf-3.0.0
cxf-3.0.0-milestone2
cxf-3.0.10
cxf-3.0.11
cxf-3.0.2
cxf-3.0.3
cxf-3.0.4
cxf-3.0.5
cxf-3.0.6
cxf-3.0.7
cxf-3.0.8
cxf-3.0.9
cxf-3.1.0
cxf-3.1.1
cxf-3.1.2
cxf-3.1.3
cxf-3.1.4
cxf-3.1.5
cxf-3.1.6
cxf-3.1.7
cxf-3.1.8

Database specific

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