CVE-2018-11788
Apache Karaf provides a features deployer, which allows users to "hot deploy" a features XML by dropping the file directly in the deploy…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 7.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Apache Karaf provides a features deployer, which allows users to "hot deploy" a features XML by dropping the file directly in the deploy folder. The features XML is parsed by XMLInputFactory class. Apache Karaf XMLInputFactory class doesn't contain any mitigation codes against XXE. This is a potential security risk as an user can inject external XML entities in Apache Karaf version prior to 4.1.7 or 4.2.2. It has been fixed in Apache Karaf 4.1.7 and 4.2.2 releases.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.3% · top 5.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Karaf
- affected Any Apache Karaf version prior to 4.1.7 and 4.2.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.karaf.specs:org.apache.karaf.specs.java.xmlGHSA-92wj-x78c-m4fx (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- http://karaf.apache.org/security/cve-2018-11788.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 106479 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0180 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-92wj-x78c-m4fx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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