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CVE-2010-2076

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-829

Description

Apache CXF 2.0.x before 2.0.13, 2.1.x before 2.1.10, and 2.2.x before 2.2.9, as used in Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel, Apache Chemistry, Apache jUDDI, Apache Geronimo, and other products, does not properly reject DTDs in SOAP messages, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a crafted DTD, as demonstrated by an entity declaration in a request to samples/wsdl_first_pure_xml, a similar issue to CVE-2010-1632.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF: from 2.0.6 before 2.0.13; from 2.1 before 2.1.10; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.9 — fixed in 2.0.13, 2.1.10, 2.2.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache CXF 2.0.13, 2.1.10, 2.2.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://geronimo.apache.org/2010/07/21/apache-geronimo-v216-released.html
• http://geronimo.apache.org/21x-security-report.html
• http://geronimo.apache.org/22x-security-report.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/40969
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41016
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41025
• http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/trunk/security/CVE-2010-2076.pdf
• http://www.listware.net/201006/cxf-users/60160-important-apache-cxf-security-advisory-cve-2010-2076.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42492
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5383
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E

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