Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-20157 - XXE vulnerability in Openrefine

CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

PARTIAL

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

network

low complexity

openrefine

CWE-611

NVD

Published: 2018-12-15

Updated: 2019-01-03

Summary

The data import functionality in OpenRefine through 3.1 allows an XML External Entity (XXE) attack through a crafted (zip) file, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Openrefine Openrefine Openrefine 1.0 Openrefine Openrefine 1.0.1 Openrefine Openrefine 1.0.2 Openrefine Openrefine 1.0.3 Openrefine Openrefine 1.0.5 Openrefine Openrefine 1.0.6 Openrefine Openrefine 1.0.7 Openrefine Openrefine 1.1 Openrefine Openrefine 2.0 Openrefine Openrefine 2.1 Openrefine Openrefine 2.5 Openrefine Openrefine 2.6 Openrefine Openrefine 2.7 Openrefine Openrefine 2.8 Openrefine Openrefine 3.0 Openrefine Openrefine 3.1	34

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE')

References

https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/1907