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CVE-2017-7545

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

It was discovered that the XmlUtils class in jbpmmigration 6.5 performed expansion of external parameter entities while parsing XML files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server and, potentially, perform other more advanced XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks.

Affected products

• RedHat Decision Manager: 7.0
• RedHat Jboss Bpm Suite: 6.4
• RedHat Jbpm: 6.5

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102179
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3354
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3355
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7545
• https://github.com/kiegroup/jbpm-designer/commit/a143f3b92a6a5a527d929d68c02a0c5d914ab81d
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102179
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3354
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3355
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7545
• https://github.com/kiegroup/jbpm-designer/commit/a143f3b92a6a5a527d929d68c02a0c5d914ab81d

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