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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1jaGZtLTY4dnYtcHZ3Nc4AA7eI
XMLUnit for Java has Insecure Defaults when Processing XSLT Stylesheets
Impact
When performing XSLT transformations XMLUnit for Java did not disable XSLT extension functions by default. Depending on the XSLT processor being used this could allow arbitrary code to be executed when XMLUnit is used to transform data with a stylesheet who's source can not be trusted. If the stylesheet can be provided externally this may even lead to a remote code execution.
Patches
Users are advised to upgrade to XMLUnit for Java 2.10.0 where the default has been changed by means of https://github.com/xmlunit/xmlunit/commit/b81d48b71dfd2868bdfc30a3e17ff973f32bc15b
Workarounds
XMLUnit's main use-case is performing tests on code that generates or processes XML. Most users will not use it to perform arbitrary XSLT transformations.
Users running XSLT transformations with untrusted stylesheets should explicitly use XMLUnit's APIs to pass in a pre-configured TraX TransformerFactory
with extension functions disabled via features and attributes. The required setFactory
or setTransformerFactory
methods have been available since XMLUnit for Java 2.0.0.
References
Bug Report
JAXP Security Guide
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Low
Classification: General
Published: 4 months ago
Updated: 4 months ago
Identifiers: GHSA-chfm-68vv-pvw5, CVE-2024-31573
References:
- https://github.com/xmlunit/xmlunit/security/advisories/GHSA-chfm-68vv-pvw5
- https://github.com/xmlunit/xmlunit/issues/264
- https://github.com/xmlunit/xmlunit/commit/b81d48b71dfd2868bdfc30a3e17ff973f32bc15b
- https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/security/java-api-xml-processing-jaxp-security-guide.html#GUID-E345AA09-801E-4B95-B83D-7F0C452538AA
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-chfm-68vv-pvw5
Blast Radius: 0.0
Affected Packages
maven:org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core
Dependent packages: 511Dependent repositories: 2,502
Downloads:
Affected Version Ranges: < 2.10.0
Fixed in: 2.10.0
All affected versions: 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.7.0, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.9.0, 2.9.1
All unaffected versions: 2.10.0