CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-24665

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Jan 29, 2021 | Modified: Feb 04, 2021
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Dashboard Editor in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 7.x - 8.x contains an XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability, which allows an authenticated remote users to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition. Specifically, the vulnerability lies in the dashboardXml parameter. Remediated in >= 7.1.0.25, >= 8.2.0.6, >= 8.3.0.0 GA

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vantara_pentaho Hitachi 7.0.0 (including) 7.1.0.25 (excluding)
Vantara_pentaho Hitachi 8.0.0 (including) 8.2.0.6 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

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