External Entity Reference in TwelveMonkeys ImageIO
Critical severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 7, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Feb 1, 2023
Package
Affected versions
< 3.7.1
Patched versions
3.7.1
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
May 6, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 7, 2022
Reviewed
May 24, 2022
Last updated
Feb 1, 2023
The package com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata before version 3.7.1 is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an insecurely initialized XML parser for reading XMP Metadata. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability if they are able to supply a file (e.g. when an online profile picture is processed) with a malicious XMP segment. If the XMP metadata of the uploaded image is parsed, then the XXE vulnerability is triggered.
References