CVE-2023-6836
Multiple WSO2 products have been identified as vulnerable due to an XML External Entity (XXE) attack abuses a widely available but rarely…
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Description
Multiple WSO2 products have been identified as vulnerable due to an XML External Entity (XXE) attack abuses a widely available but rarely used feature of XML parsers to access sensitive information.
Timeline
ID reserved
By WSO2
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WSO2CNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
Affected products
- unknown < 3.0.0.0
- affected 3.0.0.0 – < 3.0.0.1
WSO2 · WSO2 API Manager Analytics
- unknown < 2.2.0.0
- affected 2.2.0.0 – < 2.2.0.1
- affected 2.5.0.0 – < 2.5.0.1
- unknown < 2.2.0.0
- affected 2.2.0.0 – < 2.2.0.1
WSO2 · WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
- unknown < 6.0.0.2
- affected 6.0.0.0 – < 6.0.0.3
- affected 6.1.0.0 – < 6.1.0.5
- affected 6.1.1.0 – < 6.1.1.5
- affected 6.6.0.0 – < 6.6.0.1
- unknown < 5.5.0.0
- affected 5.5.0.0 – < 5.5.0.1
- affected 5.6.0.0 – < 5.6.0.1
- affected 5.7.0.0 – < 5.7.0.1
- affected 5.9.0.0 – < 5.9.0.1
- unknown < 5.4.0.0
- affected 5.4.0.0 – < 5.4.0.1
- affected 5.4.1.0 – < 5.4.1.1
- affected 5.5.0.0 – < 5.5.0.1
- affected 5.6.0.0 – < 5.6.0.1
- unknown < 1.0.0.0
- affected 1.0.0.0 – < 1.0.0.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.wso2.am:wso2amGHSA-cr8h-fr86-8vfv (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.wso2.carbon.analytics-common:org.wso2.carbon.event.input.adapter.coreGHSA-cr8h-fr86-8vfv (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.wso2.carbon.commons:org.wso2.carbon.ntask.coreGHSA-cr8h-fr86-8vfv (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.wso2.carbon.event-processing:org.wso2.carbon.event.processor.coreGHSA-cr8h-fr86-8vfv (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.wso2.carbon.governance:org.wso2.carbon.governance.commonGHSA-cr8h-fr86-8vfv (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.wso2.carbon.registry:org.wso2.carbon.registry.extensionsGHSA-cr8h-fr86-8vfv (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: For WSO2 Subscription holders, the recommended solution is to apply the provided patch/update to the affected versions of the products. If there are any instructions given with the patch/update, please make sure those are followed properly. Community users may apply the relevant fixes to the product based on the public fix(s) advertised in https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2021/WSO2-2020-0716/ https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2021/WSO2-2020-0716/
References (1)
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-cr8h-fr86-8vfv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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