CVE-2018-1000632

Publication date 20 August 2018

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dom4j 25.10 questing
Fixed 2.1.1-1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 2.1.1-1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 2.1.1-1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.1.1-1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2.1.1-1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 2.1.1-1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 2.1.1-1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.1.1-1
21.10 impish
Fixed 2.1.1-1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 2.1.1-1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 2.1.1-1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.1.1-1
19.10 eoan
Fixed 2.1.1-1
19.04 disco
Fixed 2.1.1-1
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 2.1.1-1
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.6.1+dfsg.3-2ubuntu1.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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