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CVE-2020-10683

Vendororacle, dom4j projectProductjdeveloper, communications unified inventory management, agile product lifecycle management, financial services analytical applications infrastructure, banking platform, business process management suite, communications diameter signaling router, data integrator, fusion middleware, rapid planning, application testing suite, health sciences information manager, insurance rules palette, retail integration bus, enterprise manager base platform, flexcube core banking, primavera p6 enterprise project portfolio management, endeca information discovery integrator, agile plm, communications application session controller, dom4j, insurance policy administration j2ee, retail customer management and segmentation foundation, enterprise data quality, documaker, health sciences empirica signalDiscoveredMay 1, 2020UpdatedAug 25, 2026

dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j.

CVSS v3.1
9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS
7.27%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
0
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityHIGH
IntegrityHIGH
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Connections
27 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
May 1, 2020
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Aug 25, 2026