GHSA-6fhj-vr9j-g45r

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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
Downstream
CGA (6)
Published
2025-11-10T21:04:03Z
Modified
2026-09-10T03:50:30Z
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 Validator 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

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

Affected packages

Maven / org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java

Package

Name
org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java
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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

Database specific

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