Moderate severity vulnerability that affects io.vertx:vertx-core · CVE-2018-12544 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects io.vertx:vertx-core

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 17, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 4, 2024

Package

io.vertx:vertx-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 3.5.0, < 3.5.4

Patched versions

3.5.4

Description

In version from 3.5.Beta1 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the OpenAPI XML type validator creates XML parsers without taking appropriate defense against XML attacks. This mechanism is exclusively when the developer uses the Eclipse Vert.x OpenAPI XML type validator to validate a provided schema.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 17, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Mar 4, 2024