7.5
HIGH
CVE-2025-23195
Ambari Oozie XXE Injection
Description

An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the Ambari/Oozie project, allowing an attacker to inject malicious XML entities. This vulnerability occurs due to insecure parsing of XML input using the `DocumentBuilderFactory` class without disabling external entity resolution. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server or perform server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The issue has been fixed in both Ambari 2.7.9 and the trunk branch.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 21, 2025, 10:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Jan. 22, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-23195 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Apache ambari
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://lists.apache.org/thread/hsb6mvxd7g37dq1ygtd0pd88gs9tfcwq
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/21/7

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2025-23195 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Jan. 22, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Jan. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/21/7
  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jan. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the Ambari/Oozie project, allowing an attacker to inject malicious XML entities. This vulnerability occurs due to insecure parsing of XML input using the `DocumentBuilderFactory` class without disabling external entity resolution. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server or perform server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The issue has been fixed in both Ambari 2.7.9 and the trunk branch.
    Added CWE CWE-611
    Added Reference https://lists.apache.org/thread/hsb6mvxd7g37dq1ygtd0pd88gs9tfcwq
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