Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-41967

High

Published: 28 December 2022

Published
28 December 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0028 51.6th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-41967 is a high-severity Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (CWE-611) vulnerability in Hypera Dragonfly. Its CVSS base score is 7.0 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Dragonfly is a Java runtime dependency management library. Dragonfly v0.3.0-SNAPSHOT does not configure DocumentBuilderFactory to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. This issue is patched in 0.3.1-SNAPSHOT. As a workaround, since Dragonfly only parses XML `SNAPSHOT` versions are being resolved,…

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this vulnerability may be avoided by not trying to resolve `SNAPSHOT` versions.

CWE(s)
CWE-611

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

hypera
dragonfly
0.3.0-snapshot

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-611

Penetration testing includes XML external entity payloads, detecting XXE vulnerabilities and enabling their mitigation.

SI-4 System Monitoring
addresses: CWE-611

Identifies XML external entity processing via monitoring of unusual file/network access or resource usage.

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