CVE-2020-24665

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-01-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-776

Description

The Dashboard Editor in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho through 7.x - 8.x contains an XML Entity Expansion injection vulnerability, which allows an authenticated remote users to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition. Specifically, the vulnerability lies in the 'dashboardXml' parameter. Remediated in >= 7.1.0.25, >= 8.2.0.6, >= 8.3.0.0 GA

Affected products

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho: from 7.0.0 before 7.1.0.25; from 8.0.0 before 8.2.0.6 — fixed in 7.1.0.25, 8.2.0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho 7.1.0.25, 8.2.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.hitachi.com/hirt/hitachi-sec/2020/601.html
https://www.accenture.com
http://www.hitachi.com/hirt/hitachi-sec/2020/601.html
https://www.accenture.com

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