CVE-2019-17637

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-07-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

In all versions of Eclipse Web Tools Platform through release 3.18 (2020-06), XML and DTD files referring to external entities could be exploited to send the contents of local files to a remote server when edited or validated, even when external entity resolution is disabled in the user preferences.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
eclipse Web Tools Platform: from 1.0 through 3.18

References

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458571
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00016.html
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458571
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00016.html

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