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Red Hat JBossEAP: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (CVE-2025-4949)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (CVE-2025-4949)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/21/2025
Created
05/23/2025
Added
05/22/2025
Modified
05/26/2025

Description

In Eclipse JGit versions 7.2.0.202503040940-r and older, the ManifestParser class used by the repo command and the AmazonS3 class used to implement the experimental amazons3 git transport protocol allowing to store git pack files in an Amazon S3 bucket, are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks when parsing XML files. This vulnerability can lead to information disclosure, denial of service, and other security issues.. A flaw was found in Eclipse JGit. This vulnerability can allow information disclosure, denial of service, and other security issues via parsing XML files.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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