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GHSA-VWJX-MMWM-PWRF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-05 18:31 – Updated: 2025-03-05 19:30

Summary

Lucee RCE/XXE Vulnerability

Details

Impact

The Lucee team received a responsible disclosure of a security vulnerability which affects all previous releases of Lucee.

After reviewing the report and confirming the vulnerability, the Lucee team then conducted a further security review and found additional vulnerabilities which have been addressed as part of this this security update.

Patches

Lucee 5.4.3.2 and 5.3.12.1 stable releases have been patched with additional hardening

The older releases, 5.3.7.59., 5.3.8.236 and 5.3.9.173 have also been patched

Any users running older release, should plan to immediately upgrade to the latest stable release

6.0 will have a RC as it's not yet released

Severity

10.0 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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        "name": "org.lucee:lucee"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
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              "introduced": "5.3.10.79-RC"
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    "severity": "CRITICAL"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-vwjx-mmwm-pwrf",
  "modified": "2025-03-05T19:30:32Z",
  "published": "2025-03-05T18:31:03Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
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}

CVE-2023-38693 (GCVE-0-2023-38693)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-05 15:37 – Updated: 2025-03-06 21:58

Title

RCE in Lucee REST endpoint

Summary

Lucee Server (or simply Lucee) is a dynamic, Java based, tag and scripting language used for rapid web application development. The Lucee REST endpoint is vulnerable to RCE via an XML XXE attack. This vulnerability is fixed in Lucee 5.4.3.2, 5.3.12.1, 5.3.7.59, 5.3.8.236, and 5.3.9.173.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-06 21:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7797 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/lucee/Lucee/security/advisorie…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
lucee	Lucee	Affected: >= 5.4.0.0, < 5.4.3.2 Affected: >= 5.3.12.0, < 5.3.12.1 Affected: < 5.3.7.59 Affected: >= 5.3.8.0, < 5.3.8.236 Affected: >= 5.3.9.0, < 5.3.9.173

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