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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2024-46984 Detail

Description

The reference validator is a tool to perform advanced validation of FHIR resources for TI applications and interoperability standards. The profile location routine in the referencevalidator commons package is vulnerable to `XML External Entities` attack due to insecure defaults of the used Woodstox WstxInputFactory. A malicious XML resource can lead to network requests issued by referencevalidator and thus to a `Server Side Request Forgery` attack. The vulnerability impacts applications which use referencevalidator to process XML resources from untrusted sources. The problem has been patched with the 2.5.1 version of the referencevalidator. Users are strongly recommended to update to this version or a more recent one. A pre-processing or manual analysis of input XML resources on existence of DTD definitions or external entities can mitigate the problem.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#transformerfactory Technical Description 
https://github.com/gematik/app-referencevalidator/releases/tag/2.5.1 Release Notes 
https://github.com/gematik/app-referencevalidator/security/advisories/GHSA-68j8-fp38-p48q Vendor Advisory 
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_Forgery Technical Description 
https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/A4_2017-XML_External_Entities_(XXE) Technical Description 
https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/A4_2017-XML_External_Entities_(XXE)# Technical Description 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-46984
NVD Published Date:
09/19/2024
NVD Last Modified:
09/25/2024
Source:
GitHub, Inc.