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CVE-2019-17637

In all versions of Eclipse Web Tools Platform through release 3.18 (2020-06), XML and DTD files referring to external entities could be exploited to send the contents of local files to a remote server when edited or validated, even when external entity resolution is disabled in the user preferences.

  • Published: Jul 15, 2020
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2019-17637
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.1
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.8
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

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Software From Fixed in
eclipse / web_tools_platform 1.0 3.18.x
debian / debian_linux 9.0 9.0.x