FKIE_CVE-2023-6836

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-12-15 10:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:51
Severity
4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Multiple WSO2 products have been identified as vulnerable due to an XML External Entity (XXE) attack abuses a widely available but rarely used feature of XML parsers to access sensitive information.
References
ed10eef1-636d-4fbe-9993-6890dfa878f8https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2021/WSO2-2020-0716/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2021/WSO2-2020-0716/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wso2 api_manager *
wso2 api_manager_analytics 2.2.0
wso2 api_manager_analytics 2.5.0
wso2 api_microgateway 2.2.0
wso2 enterprise_integrator *
wso2 identity_server_as_key_manager 5.0.0
wso2 identity_server_as_key_manager 5.6.0
wso2 identity_server_as_key_manager 5.7.0
wso2 identity_server_as_key_manager 5.9.0
wso2 identity_server 5.4.0
wso2 identity_server 5.4.1
wso2 identity_server 5.5.0
wso2 identity_server 5.6.0
wso2 micro_integrator 1.0.0
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