CVE-2017-12620

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-10-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 to 1.7.2, 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 of Apache OpenNLP are affected.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache OpenNLP: 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 (+4)

References

http://opennlp.apache.org/news/cve-2017-12620.html
http://opennlp.apache.org/news/cve-2017-12620.html

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