CVE-2014-5325: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

May 17, 2022 (updated July 6, 2022)

The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in Direct Web Remoting (DWR) through 2.0.10 and 3.x through 3.0.RC2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN91502163/index.html
jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2014-000117
github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqw5-62gp-rqgm
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5325

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