CVE-2022-4245

codehaus-plexus: XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 1, 2022

Updated · November 2, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in codehaus-plexus. The org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlWriterUtil#writeComment fails to sanitize comments for a --> sequence. This issue means that text contained in the command string could be interpreted as XML and allow for XML injection.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE-91 · XML Injection