Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-42445 - XXE vulnerability in Gradle

CVSS 5.3 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

HIGH

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

network

high complexity

gradle

CWE-611

NVD

Published: 2023-10-06

Updated: 2024-03-06

Summary

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. In some cases, when Gradle parses XML files, resolving XML external entities is not disabled. Combined with an Out Of Band XXE attack (OOB-XXE), just parsing XML can lead to exfiltration of local text files to a remote server. Gradle parses XML files for several purposes. Most of the time, Gradle parses XML files it generated or were already present locally. Only Ivy XML descriptors and Maven POM files can be fetched from remote repositories and parsed by Gradle. In Gradle 7.6.3 and 8.4, resolving XML external entities has been disabled for all use cases to protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will now refuse to parse XML files that have XML external entities.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Gradle Gradle Gradle - Gradle Gradle 0.1 Gradle Gradle 0.1.1 Gradle Gradle 0.1.2 Gradle Gradle 0.1.3 Gradle Gradle 0.1.4 Gradle Gradle 0.2 Gradle Gradle 0.3 Gradle Gradle 0.4 Gradle Gradle 0.5 Gradle Gradle 0.5.1 Gradle Gradle 0.5.2 Gradle Gradle 0.6 Gradle Gradle 0.6.1 Gradle Gradle 0.7 Gradle Gradle 0.8 Gradle Gradle 0.9 Gradle Gradle 0.9.1 Gradle Gradle 0.9.2 Gradle Gradle 1.0 Gradle Gradle 1.1 Gradle Gradle 1.2 Gradle Gradle 1.3 Gradle Gradle 1.3.1 Gradle Gradle 1.4 Gradle Gradle 1.5 Gradle Gradle 1.6 Gradle Gradle 1.7 Gradle Gradle 1.8 Gradle Gradle 1.9 Gradle Gradle 1.10 Gradle Gradle 1.11 Gradle Gradle 1.12 Gradle Gradle 2.0 Gradle Gradle 2.1 Gradle Gradle 2.2 Gradle Gradle 2.2.1 Gradle Gradle 2.3 Gradle Gradle 2.4 Gradle Gradle 2.5 Gradle Gradle 2.6 Gradle Gradle 2.7 Gradle Gradle 2.8 Gradle Gradle 2.9 Gradle Gradle 2.10 Gradle Gradle 2.11 Gradle Gradle 2.12 Gradle Gradle 2.13 Gradle Gradle 2.14 Gradle Gradle 2.14.1 Gradle Gradle 3.0.0 Gradle Gradle 3.1.0 Gradle Gradle 3.2.0 Gradle Gradle 3.2.1 Gradle Gradle 3.3.0 Gradle Gradle 3.4.0 Gradle Gradle 3.4.1 Gradle Gradle 3.5.0 Gradle Gradle 3.5.1 Gradle Gradle 4.0.0 Gradle Gradle 4.0.1 Gradle Gradle 4.0.2 Gradle Gradle 4.1.0 Gradle Gradle 4.2.0 Gradle Gradle 4.2.1 Gradle Gradle 4.3.0 Gradle Gradle 4.3.1 Gradle Gradle 4.4.0 Gradle Gradle 4.4.1 Gradle Gradle 4.5.0 Gradle Gradle 4.5.1 Gradle Gradle 4.6.0 Gradle Gradle 4.7.0 Gradle Gradle 4.8.0 Gradle Gradle 4.8.1 Gradle Gradle 4.9.0 Gradle Gradle 4.10.0 Gradle Gradle 4.10.1 Gradle Gradle 4.10.2 Gradle Gradle 4.10.3 Gradle Gradle 5.0.0 Gradle Gradle 5.1.0 Gradle Gradle 5.1.1 Gradle Gradle 5.2.0 Gradle Gradle 5.2.1 Gradle Gradle 5.3.0 Gradle Gradle 5.4.0 Gradle Gradle 5.4.1 Gradle Gradle 5.5.0 Gradle Gradle 5.5.1 Gradle Gradle 5.6 Gradle Gradle 5.6.0 Gradle Gradle 5.6.1 Gradle Gradle 5.6.2 Gradle Gradle 5.6.3 Gradle Gradle 5.6.4 Gradle Gradle 6.0 Gradle Gradle 6.0.0 Gradle Gradle 6.0.1 Gradle Gradle 6.1.0 Gradle Gradle 6.1.1 Gradle Gradle 6.2.0 Gradle Gradle 6.2.1 Gradle Gradle 6.2.2 Gradle Gradle 6.3.0 Gradle Gradle 6.4.0 Gradle Gradle 6.4.1 Gradle Gradle 6.5.0 Gradle Gradle 6.5.1 Gradle Gradle 6.6.0 Gradle Gradle 6.6.1 Gradle Gradle 6.7.0 Gradle Gradle 6.7.1 Gradle Gradle 6.8.0 Gradle Gradle 6.8.1 Gradle Gradle 6.8.2 Gradle Gradle 6.8.3 Gradle Gradle 6.9.0 Gradle Gradle 7.0.0 Gradle Gradle 7.0.1 Gradle Gradle 7.0.2 Gradle Gradle 7.1.0 Gradle Gradle 7.1.1 Gradle Gradle 7.2 Gradle Gradle 7.2.0 Gradle Gradle 7.3.0 Gradle Gradle 7.3.1 Gradle Gradle 7.3.2 Gradle Gradle 7.3.3 Gradle Gradle 7.4.0 Gradle Gradle 7.4.1 Gradle Gradle 7.4.2 Gradle Gradle 7.5.0 Gradle Gradle 7.5.1 Gradle Gradle 7.6.0 Gradle Gradle 7.6.1 Gradle Gradle 7.6.2 Gradle Gradle 8.0.0 Gradle Gradle 8.0.1 Gradle Gradle 8.0.2 Gradle Gradle 8.1.0 Gradle Gradle 8.1.1 Gradle Gradle 8.2.0 Gradle Gradle 8.2.1 Gradle Gradle 8.3.0	378

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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