CVE-2022-41967: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Dragonfly

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

Dragonfly is a Java runtime dependency management library. Dragonfly v0.3.0-SNAPSHOT does not configure DocumentBuilderFactory to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. This issue is patched in 0.3.1-SNAPSHOT. As a workaround, since Dragonfly only parses XML `SNAPSHOT` versions are being resolved, this vulnerability may be avoided by not trying to resolve `SNAPSHOT` versions.

Affected products

HyperaDev Dragonfly: 0.3.0-snapshot

References

https://github.com/HyperaDev/Dragonfly/commit/9661375e1135127ca6cdb5712e978bec33cc06b3
https://github.com/HyperaDev/Dragonfly/security/advisories/GHSA-6x3m-96qp-mmxv
https://github.com/HyperaDev/Dragonfly/commit/9661375e1135127ca6cdb5712e978bec33cc06b3
https://github.com/HyperaDev/Dragonfly/security/advisories/GHSA-6x3m-96qp-mmxv

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