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Tomcat/JBossWeb: XML parser hijack by malicious web application

Published May 31, 2014

Description

Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.54, and 8.x before 8.0.6 does not properly constrain the class loader that accesses the XML parser used with an XSLT stylesheet, which allows remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, or (2) read files associated with different web applications on a single Tomcat instance via a crafted web application.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published May 31, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Dec 3, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date May 27, 2014
GHSA-PRC3-7F44-W48J