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Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 14, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

maven com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle (Maven)

Affected versions

< 8.18

Patched versions

8.18

Description

Checkstyle prior to 8.18 loads external DTDs by default, which can potentially lead to denial of service attacks or the leaking of confidential information.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 14, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-9658

GHSA ID

GHSA-gp32-7h29-rpxm

Source code

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