CVE-2016-6798

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the method XSS.getValidXML() uses an insecure SAX parser to validate the input string, which allows for XXE attacks in all scripts which use this method to validate user input, potentially allowing an attacker to read sensitive data on the filesystem, perform same-site-request-forgery (SSRF), port-scanning behind the firewall or DoS the application.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-611

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 19, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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