CVE-2018-1000632

dom4j: XML Injection in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute which can impact the integrity of XML documents

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 1, 2018

Updated · November 2, 2026

Description

dom4j version prior to version 2.1.1 contains a CWE-91: XML Injection vulnerability in Class: Element. Methods: addElement, addAttribute that can result in an attacker tampering with XML documents through XML injection. This attack appear to be exploitable via an attacker specifying attributes or elements in the XML document. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.1.1 or later.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command