CVE-2020-10683

highpriority · track · 42EPSS 0.073 · 94 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

7.27% (94th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

150 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-611USprimaryCWE-611USCWE-611US

affected products (150)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Dell Data Protection Advisor <19.12 SP 1all versionscert_bundDE
Dell Data Protection Advisor< 19.12 SP 1cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Google Inc Android Studio≤ 2025.2.3.9fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. OpenSUSE Leap≤ 15.1fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Application Testing Suite≤ 13.3.0.1fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Banking Platform2.4.0 → 2.10.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Business Process Management Suite≤ 12.2.1.3.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Business Process Management Suite≤ 12.2.1.4.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Communications Application Session Controller≤ 3.9m0p1fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Communications Diameter Signaling Router8.0.0 → 8.2.2fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Enterprise Data Quality≤ 12.2.1.3.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Enterprise Data Quality≤ 11.1.1.9.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure8.0.6 → 8.1.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Oracle Agile PLM≤ 9.3.3fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Oracle Agile PLM≤ 9.3.5fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management≤ 7.3fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management≤ 7.4.0fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management≤ 7.4fstec_bduRU
Oracle Corp. Oracle Data Integrator≤ 12.2.1.4.0fstec_bduRU

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advisories (5)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-1912Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2020-08-17csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform ausnutzen, um Code zur Ausführung zu bringen, Informationen offenzulegen, Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen oder einen Denial of Service zu verursachen.
WID-SEC-W-2023-0119Oracle Utilities Applications: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-01-17csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Oracle Utilities Applications ausnutzen, um die Vertraulichkeit, Integrität und Verfügbarkeit zu gefährden.
WID-SEC-W-2024-0068IBM Business Automation Workflow: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-01-11csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM Business Automation Workflow ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen oder Dateien zu manipulieren.
WID-SEC-W-2025-1459Dell Data Protection Advisor: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-07-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Dell Data Protection Advisor ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, und um weitere nicht näher spezifizierte Angriffe durchzuführen.
GHSA-hwj3-m3p6-hj38dom4j allows External Entities by default which might enable XXE attacks2020-06-05ghsa · osvUS
dom4j 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. Note: This advisory applies to `dom4j:dom4j` version 1.x legacy artifacts. To resolve this a change to the latest version of `org.dom4j:dom4j` is recommended.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-05-01modified 2026-08-25

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references (95)

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