CVE-2011-3600

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-11-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

The /webtools/control/xmlrpc endpoint in OFBiz XML-RPC event handler is exposed to External Entity Injection by passing DOCTYPE declarations with executable payloads that discloses the contents of files in the filesystem. In addition, it can also be used to probe for open network ports, and figure out from returned error messages whether a file exists or not. This affects OFBiz 16.11.01 to 16.11.04.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache OFBiz: from 16.11.01 through 16.11.04

References

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ofbiz-user/201810.mbox/%3Cfad45546-af86-0293-9ea7-014553474b30%40apache.org%3E
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3600
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3600
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7793319ae80ec350f7b82a8763460944f120ebe447f14a12155d0550%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3600
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ofbiz-user/201810.mbox/%3Cfad45546-af86-0293-9ea7-014553474b30%40apache.org%3E
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3600
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3600
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7793319ae80ec350f7b82a8763460944f120ebe447f14a12155d0550%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3600

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