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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2019-10782 json

XML external entity (XXE) processing ('external-parameter-entities' feature was not fully disabled))

published 2020-01-30 6 y ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-763g-fqq7-48wg , EUVD-2020-0251

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle 8.29
  • checkstyle checkstyle 8.29
  • checkstyle Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 8.29-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10782

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-2019-10782 updated cvss 5.3

checkstyle: XML External Entity Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 checkstyle
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

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

1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMPUPPYCRAWLTOOLS-543266 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle
<8.29
8.29

Affected products

  • n/a com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.