CVE-2024-8010
XML External Entity Injection via Publisher in WSO2 API Manager Allows Reading Arbitrary Files
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WSO2
Description
The component accepts XML input through the publisher without disabling external entity resolution. This allows malicious actors to submit a crafted XML payload that exploits the unescaped external entity references. By leveraging this vulnerability, a malicious actor can read confidential files from the product's file system or access limited HTTP resources reachable via HTTP GET requests to the vulnerable product.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WSO2CNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 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)
- 0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- unknown < 3.2.0
- affected 3.2.0 – < 3.2.0.397
- affected 3.2.1 – < 3.2.1.27
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.310
- affected 4.0.0 – < 4.0.0.319
- affected 4.1.0 – < 4.1.0.171
- affected 4.2.0 – < 4.2.0.127
- affected 4.3.0 – < 4.3.0.39
What to do
Solution: Follow the instructions given on https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2026/WSO2-2024-3581/#solution
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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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