CVE-2024-8602 (GCVE-0-2024-8602)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-14 13:10 – Updated: 2024-12-18 16:07
VLAI
Title
XML Eternal Entity Attack in the Software Library taxstatement.jar
Summary
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Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-18 16:07 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Assigner
NCSC.ch CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 79/100 over 81 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Schweizerische Steuerkonferenz Library taxstatement.jar Affected: 2.2.2
Affected: 2.2.4
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Date Public
2024-09-16 10:44
Credits
Manuel Kiesel - cyllective AG
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