USN-4575-1

It was discovered that dom4j incorrectly handled reading XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted XML file to expose sensitive data or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-10683)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / dom4j

Package

Name: dom4j
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/dom4j@1.6.1+dfsg.3-2ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.6.1+dfsg.3-2ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.1+dfsg.3-2ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.1+dfsg.3-2ubuntu1.1",
            "binary_name": "libdom4j-java"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

{
    "cves_map": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "cves": [
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "type": "CVSS_V3"
                    },
                    {
                        "score": "medium",
                        "type": "Ubuntu"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2020-10683"
            }
        ]
    }
}