High severity · published Jan 21, 2025
CVE-2025-23195
Apache Ambari: XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in Ambari/Oozie
7.5
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 56% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
Apache Ambari · Apache Software Foundation
before 2.7.9 · source: vendor
AM
Ambari · Apache
before 2.7.9 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23195
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23195
Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/hsb6mvxd7g37dq1ygtd0pd88gs9tfcwq
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/21/7
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