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Fencer Vulns
high 8.6

CVE-2024-52007 json

XXE vulnerability in XSLT parsing in `org.hl7.fhir.core`

published 2024-11-08 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-3256 , GHSA-gr3c-q7xf-47vh

cvss
8.6
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. XSLT parsing performed by various components are vulnerable to XML external entity injections. A processed XML file with a malicious DTD tag ( <!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY example SYSTEM "/etc/passwd"> ]> could produce XML containing data from the host system. This impacts use cases where org.hl7.fhir.core is being used to within a host where external clients can submit XML. This is related to GHSA-6cr6-ph3p-f5rf, in which its fix (#1571 & #1717) was incomplete. This issue has been addressed in release version 6.4.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

  • maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu3 6.4.0
  • maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4 6.4.0
  • maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4b 6.4.0
  • maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5 6.4.0
  • maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.utilities 6.4.0
  • maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016may 6.4.0
  • hapifhir hl7_fhir_core 6.4.0

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-2024-52007 updated cvss 8.6

org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016may: org.hl7.fhir.dstu3: org.hl7.fhir.r4: org.hl7.fhir.r5: org.hl7.fhir.utilities: org.hl7.fhir.core: XXE vulnerability in XSLT parsing in `org.hl7.fhir.core`

  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 org.hl7.fhir.r4, org.hl7.fhir.r5, org.hl7.fhir.dstu3, org.hl7.fhir.utilities, org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016may
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 org.hl7.fhir.r4, org.hl7.fhir.r5, org.hl7.fhir.dstu3, org.hl7.fhir.utilities, org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016may, ca.uhn.hapi.fhir-org.hl7.fhir.core ca.uhn.hapi.fhir-org.hl7.fhir.core Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 org.hl7.fhir.r4, org.hl7.fhir.r5, org.hl7.fhir.dstu3, org.hl7.fhir.utilities
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.4 for Spring Boot
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:9806

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
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu3
<6.4.0
6.4.0
maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4
<6.4.0
6.4.0
maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4b
<6.4.0
6.4.0
maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r5
<6.4.0
6.4.0
maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.utilities
<6.4.0
6.4.0
maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.dstu2016may
<6.4.0
6.4.0

Affected products

  • hapifhir org.hl7.fhir.core
  • hapifhir hl7_fhir_core

Classification

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

References

Sources

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