CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-34467

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

Published: Jul 12, 2022 | Modified: Jul 20, 2022
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

A vulnerability has been identified in Mendix Excel Importer Module (Mendix 8 compatible) (All versions < V9.2.2), Mendix Excel Importer Module (Mendix 9 compatible) (All versions < V10.1.2). The affected component is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion Injection. An attacker may use this to compromise the availability of the affected component.

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
Excel_importer Mendix * 9.2.2 (excluding)
Excel_importer Mendix 10.0.0 (including) 10.1.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References