Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Direct Web Remoting
Date: 2022-05
Affected: maven/org.directwebremoting:dwr, maven/org.directwebremoting:dwr
Attack vector: info-disclosure
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2014-5325
CWE: CWE-200

The (1) DOMConverter, (2) JDOMConverter, (3) DOM4JConverter, and (4) XOMConverter functions in Direct Web Remoting (DWR) through 2.0.10 and 3.x through 3.0.RC2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via DOM data containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.


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