GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/11/GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r/GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r

Aliases

CVE-2025-64518

Published

2025-11-10T21:04:03Z

Modified

2025-11-15T03:09:35.874709Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

CycloneDX Core (Java): BOM validation is vulnerable to XML External Entity injection

Details

Impact

The XML <code>Validator</code> used by cyclonedx-core-java was not configured securely, making the library vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection.

The fix for GHSA-683x-4444-jxh8 / CVE-2024-38374 has been incomplete in that it only fixed parsing of XML BOMs, but not validation.

Patches

The vulnerability has been fixed in cyclonedx-core-java version 11.0.1.

Workarounds

If feasible, applications can reject XML documents before handing them to cyclonedx-core-java for validation. This may be an option if incoming CycloneDX BOMs are known to be in JSON format.

References

The issue was introduced via https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java/commit/162aa594f347b3f612fe0a45071693c3cd398ce9
The issue was fixed via https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java/pull/737
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XMLExternalEntityPreventionCheat_Sheet.html#schemafactory

Database specific

{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-611"
    ],
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-11-10T22:15:40Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-11-10T21:04:03Z"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java

Package

Name: org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/org.cyclonedx/cyclonedx-core-java

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

2.1.0

Fixed

11.0.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.1.0

2.1.1

2.5.0

2.5.1

2.6.0

2.6.1

2.6.2

2.6.3

2.6.4

2.6.5

2.7.0

3.*

3.0.0

3.0.1

3.0.2

3.0.3

3.0.4

3.0.5

3.0.6

3.0.7

3.0.8

4.*

4.0.0

4.0.1

4.0.2

4.0.3

4.1.0

4.1.1

4.1.2

5.*

5.0.0

5.0.1

5.0.2

5.0.3

5.0.4

5.0.5

6.*

6.0.0

7.*

7.0.0

7.1.0

7.1.1

7.1.2

7.1.3

7.1.4

7.1.5

7.1.6

7.2.0

7.2.1

7.3.0

7.3.1

7.3.2

8.*

8.0.0

8.0.1

8.0.2

8.0.3

9.*

9.0.0

9.0.1

9.0.2

9.0.3

9.0.4

9.0.5

9.1.0

10.*

10.0.0

10.1.0

10.2.1

11.*

11.0.0