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CVE-2020-10683
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However,…
Critical9.8EPSS 7.3%
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- mitre
Description
dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.3% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavendom4j:dom4jGHSA-hwj3-m3p6-hj38 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.dom4j:dom4jGHSA-hwj3-m3p6-hj38 (opens in a new tab)
References (20)
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0719 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1694235 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/releases/tag/version-2.1.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commit/a8228522a99a02146106672a34c104adbda5c658 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0002/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-4575-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/commits/version-2.0.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [velocity-dev] 20201203 Use of external DTDs - CVE-2020-10683 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [velocity-dev] 20201203 Re: Use of external DTDs - CVE-2020-10683 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [freemarker-notifications] 20210906 [jira] [Created] (FREEMARKER-190) The jar dom4j has known security issue that Freemarker compiles dependend on it (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hwj3-m3p6-hj38 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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