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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2018-8027 json

Apache is vulnerable to XXE in XSD validation processor

published 2018-07-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8vfm-4388-6rpc , EUVD-2018-0555

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.4%
EPSS 5.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Camel 2.20.0 to 2.20.3 and 2.21.0 Core is vulnerable to XXE in XSD validation processor.

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-2018-8027 updated cvss 7.4

camel-core: XXE in XSD validation processor

  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 camel-core camel-core
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 camel-core camel-core Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 camel-core camel-core Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 camel-core camel-core
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel-core camel-core Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 camel-core camel-core
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11 camel-core camel-core Red Hat Fuse 7 camel-core camel-core Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 camel-core camel-core Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 4 camel-core camel-core
    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

Exploit prediction

5.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/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 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/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.apache.camel:camel-core
>=2.20.0, <2.20.4
>=2.21.0, <2.21.1
2.20.4
2.21.1

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Camel

Classification

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

References

Sources

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