An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request. At this time there is not released fixed version of JDOM. As a workaround, to avoid external entities being expanded, one can call builder.setExpandEntities(false)
and they won't be expanded.
{ "nvd_published_at": "2021-06-16T12:15:00Z", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-611" ], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": true, "github_reviewed_at": "2021-07-27T19:02:41Z" }