XML External Entity injection in Jena - CVE-2022-28890

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XML External Entity injection in Jena - CVE-2022-28890

Published: May 5, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU62831
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-28890
CWE-ID: CWE-611
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied XML input in the RDF/XML parser. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted XML code to the affected application and view contents of arbitrary files on the system or initiate requests to external systems.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to view contents of arbitrary file on the server or perform network scanning of internal and external infrastructure.


Affected software

Jena
Jazz Foundation
IBM Integration Bus
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing
Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V
Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
Jazz Reporting Service

How to mitigate CVE-2022-28890

Install updates from vendor's website.

Jena - update to 4.5.0
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing - addressed in versions 7.0.1.23, 7.0.2.25
Jazz Reporting Service - update to 7.0.2 iFix021
Jazz Foundation - addressed in versions 7.0.3, 7.1.0
Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for Hyper-V - update to 8.1.20.0
Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware - update to 8.1.20.0
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next - update to 9.7.2.7

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