Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Apache Roller - CVE-2018-17198
Published: June 3, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18663
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17198
CWE-ID: CWE-918
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when the package relies on Java SAX Parser to implement its XML-RPC interface and by default that parser supports external entities in XML DOCTYPE. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected application and trick it to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
Affected software
Apache Roller
How to mitigate CVE-2018-17198
Install updates from vendor's website.
Apache Roller - update to 5.2.2