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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2017-7545 json

XML External Entity Reference in jbpmmigration

published 2018-07-26 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vc3x-72q4-g3p5 , EUVD-2022-5332

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was discovered that the XmlUtils class in jbpmmigration 6.5 performed expansion of external parameter entities while parsing XML files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server and, potentially, perform other more advanced XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7545 updated cvss 6.5

jbpmmigration: XXE vulnerability in XmlUtils

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 jbpmmigration jbpmmigration
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3355
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3354

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jbpm.jbpm5:jbpmmigration
<=0.15
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • KIE jbpm-designer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

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