CVE-2021-23792

Summary

CVECVE-2021-23792
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-06 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-05-17 17:20:00 UTC
DescriptionThe package com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata before 3.7.1 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an insecurely initialized XML parser for reading XMP Metadata. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability if they are able to supply a file (e.g. when an online profile picture is processed) with a malicious XMP segment. If the XMP metadata of the uploaded image is parsed, then the XXE vulnerability is triggered.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-611

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Twelvemonkeys Project Twelvemonkeys All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in com.twelvemonkeys.imageio:imageio-metadata | CVE-2021-23792 | Snyk CONFIRM snyk.io
Avoid fetching external resources in XMPReader. · haraldk/TwelveMonkeys@da4efe9 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: MOGWAI LABS GmbH

LEGACY: Timo Müller

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 182511 Debian Security Update for libtwelvemonkeys-java (CVE-2021-23792)

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