CVE-2019-18212

Summary

CVECVE-2019-18212
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-23 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-30 13:19:00 UTC
DescriptionXMLLanguageService.java in XML Language Server (aka lsp4xml) before 0.9.1, as used in Red Hat XML Language Support (aka vscode-xml) before 0.9.1 for Visual Studio and other products, allows a remote attacker to write to arbitrary files via Directory Traversal.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eclipse Wild Web Developer - All All All
Application Eclipse Wild Web Developer - All All All
Application Theia Xml Extension Project Theia Xml Extension - All All All
Application Theia Xml Extension Project Theia Xml Extension - All All All
Application Xml Language Server Project Xml Server Project All All All All
Application Xml Language Server Project Xml Server Project All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Don't open that XML: XXE to RCE in XML plugins for VS Code, Eclipse, Theia, ... - Shielder MISC www.shielder.it Exploit, Third Party Advisory
lemminx/CHANGELOG.md at master · eclipse/lemminx · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Reject download of resource which are not in the cache folder by angelozerr · Pull Request #567 · eclipse/lemminx · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
GitHub - angelozerr/lsp4xml: XML Language Server MISC github.com Product
XML - Visual Studio Marketplace MISC marketplace.visualstudio.com Third Party Advisory
GitHub - redhat-developer/vscode-xml: Editing XML in Visual Studio Code made easy MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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