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CVE-2016-8739
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-10T18:29:00.190 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:55.110

Summary

The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.

Affected products

apache — cxf

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