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    GHSA-fgq9-fc3q-vqmw

    Published: 25 Oct 2023Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Withdrawn Advisory: dom4j XML Entity Expansion vulnerability

    Details: ## Withdrawn Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because [the underlying vulnerability could not be reproduced](https://github.com/joker-xiaoyan/XXE-SAXReader/issues/1#issuecomment-1783780581). This link is maintained to preserve external references. ## Original Description An issue in dom4.j org.dom4.io.SAXReader v.2.1.4 and before allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via the setFeature function.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45960, https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j/issues/171#issuecomment-1781547256, https://github.com/joker-xiaoyan/XXE-SAXReader/issues/1, https://dom4j.github.io, https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j, https://github.com/joker-xiaoyan/XXE-SAXReader/blob/8c0d24f9800c36c8ad36457c1df1e4aaff24c7b9/POC.java, https://github.com/joker-xiaoyan/XXE-SAXReader/tree/main

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.dom4j:dom4j

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.dom4j/dom4j

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.0.0
    2.0.0-RC1
    2.0.1
    2.0.2
    2.0.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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