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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-38374 json

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java

published 2024-06-24 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-683x-4444-jxh8 , EUVD-2024-1944

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The CycloneDX core module provides a model representation of the SBOM along with utilities to assist in creating, validating, and parsing SBOMs. Before deserializing CycloneDX Bill of Materials in XML format, _cyclonedx-core-java_ leverages XPath expressions to determine the schema version of the BOM. The `DocumentBuilderFactory` used to evaluate XPath expressions was not configured securely, making the library vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection. This vulnerability has been fixed in cyclonedx-core-java version 9.0.4.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java 9.0.4
  • cyclonedx cyclonedx_core_java 9.0.4

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-2024-38374 updated cvss 7.5

cyclonedx-core-java: XML External Entity injection while evaluating XPath expressions

  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 cyclonedx-core-java Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Runtimes cyclonedx-core-java
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 cyclonedx-core-java Red Hat build of Quarkus cyclonedx-core-java Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 cyclonedx-core-java Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 cyclonedx-core-java Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack cyclonedx-core-java Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka cyclonedx-core-java
    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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java
>=2.1.0, <9.0.4
9.0.4

Affected products

  • CycloneDX cyclonedx-core-java
  • cyclonedx cyclonedx_core_java

Classification

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

References

Sources

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