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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-13990 in the critical feed json

XML external entity injection in Terracotta Quartz Scheduler

published 2019-07-26 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9qcf-c26r-x5rf , EUVD-2020-0548

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
16.6%
EPSS 16.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

initDocumentParser in xml/XMLSchedulingDataProcessor.java in Terracotta Quartz Scheduler through 2.3.0 allows XXE attacks via a job description.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.quartz-scheduler:quartz 2.3.2
  • softwareag quartz 2.3.2
  • libquartz-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:1.8.6-8
  • libquartz2-java Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.0-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13990

  • rhvm rhev manager 4.4 4.4.1.8-0.7.el8ev
  • novnc rhev manager 4.4 1.1.0-1.el8ost
  • ovirt-engine rhev manager 4.4 4.4.1.8-0.7.el8ev
  • rhvm-dependencies rhev manager 4.4 4.4.0-1.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-setup rhev manager 4.4 4.4.1.8-0.7.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-tools rhev manager 4.4 4.4.1.8-0.7.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-backend rhev manager 4.4 4.4.1.8-0.7.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-restapi rhev manager 4.4 4.4.1.8-0.7.el8ev

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:3247

  • quartz Manager Server 3.2 2.3.0-14.3.1
  • quartz Manager Server Module 4.0 2.3.0-4.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1009-1SUSE-SU-2020:0984-1

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-2019-13990 updated cvss 8.1

libquartz: XXE attacks via job description

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 quartz Red Hat Satellite 5 quartz
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 quartz
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3196
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:5568
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3197
  • Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 rhvm-dependencies 4.4.0-1.el8ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3247
  • Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 novnc 1.1.0-1.el8ost, snmp4j 2.4.1-1.el8ev, xmlrpc 3.1.3-1.el8ev, makeself 2.4.0-4.el8ev, rhvm 4.4.1.8-0.7.el8ev, log4j12 1.2.17-22.el8ev, +119 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

16.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.quartz-scheduler:quartz
<2.3.2
2.3.2

Classification

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

References

Sources

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