CVE-2019-10782

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658.

Affected products

com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle: before 8.29 — fixed in 8.29

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle 8.29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8aaf4ee16bbaf6204731d4770d96ebb34b258cd79b491f9cdd7f2540%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00008.html
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMPUPPYCRAWLTOOLS-543266
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8aaf4ee16bbaf6204731d4770d96ebb34b258cd79b491f9cdd7f2540%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00008.html
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMPUPPYCRAWLTOOLS-543266

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