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FKIE_CVE-2021-41042

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-07-07 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:07

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Summary

In Eclipse Lyo versions 1.0.0 to 4.1.0, a TransformerFactory is initialized with the defaults that do not restrict DTD loading when working with RDF/XML. This allows an attacker to cause an external DTD to be retrieved.

References

	URL	Tags
	emo@eclipse.org	https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/emo/-/issues/287	Exploit, Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/emo/-/issues/287	Exploit, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	eclipse	lyo	*

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T04:07:47.823",
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CVE-2021-41042 (GCVE-0-2021-41042)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-07 20:55 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:59

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-611

Assigner

eclipse CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 204 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/em…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
The Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Lyo	Affected: 1.0.0 , < unspecified (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ 4.1.0 (custom)

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