CVE-2017-7503: xerces:xercesImpl:jar:2.12.2:provided

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Summary

It was found that the Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0.5 implementation of javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory is vulnerable to XXE. An attacker could use this flaw to launch DoS or SSRF attacks, or read files from the server where EAP is deployed.

CVE: CVE-2017-7503
CWE: CWE-611

References

• https://guide.sonatype.com/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7503?component-type=maven&component-name=xerces%2FxercesImpl&utm_source=ossindex-client&utm_medium=integration&utm_content=1.8.1
• http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-7503
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7503