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AIKIDO-2025-10270

validator is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XEE)

XML External Entity (XEE)CVE-2025-66372

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Medium Risk

This Affects:

javavalidator
2.14.0 - 2.16.3
Fixed in 2.16.4

TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection due to missing secure parsing properties in the DocumentBuilderFactory configuration. An attacker can exploit this by submitting a malicious XML payload containing external entity references, which the unsecured parser would resolve, potentially allowing unauthorized access to sensitive files, server-side request forgery (SSRF), or other XXE-based attacks.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

validator is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XEE) in versions 2.14.0 - 2.16.3.

How to fix this

Upgrade the org.mustangproject:validator library to the patch version.