CVE-2023-42445

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.008 · 56 %ileDEEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.78% (56th) EPSS
CVSS 5.3 · medium
Is it mine?
48 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. In some cases, when Gradle parses XML files, resolving XML external entities is not disabled. Combined with an Out Of Band XXE attack (OOB-XXE), just parsing XML can lead to exfiltration of local text files to a remote server. Gradle parses XML files for several purposes. Most of the time, Gradle parses XML files it generated or were already present locally. Only Ivy XML descriptors and Maven POM files can be fetched from remote repositories and parsed by Gradle. In Gradle 7.6.3 and 8.4, resolving XML external entities has been disabled for all use cases to protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will now refuse to parse XML files that have XML external entities.

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cvss

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

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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.6 · impact 3.6
v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 1.6 · impact 5.2
v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

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CWE-611USprimary
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affected products (48)

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • WID-SEC-W-2023-3070Red Hat JBoss A-MQ: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-12-06csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat JBoss A-MQ ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen, Informationen offenzulegen, Dateien zu manipulieren oder einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen.

  • BIT-gradle-2023-42445Possible local file exfiltration by XML External entity injection2024-03-06vendor · osvUS

    Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. In some cases, when Gradle parses XML files, resolving XML external entities is not disabled. Combined with an Out Of Band XXE attack (OOB-XXE), just parsing XML can lead to exfiltration of local text files to a remote server. Gradle parses XML files for several purposes. Most of the time, Gradle parses XML files it generated or were already present locally. Only Ivy XML descriptors and Maven POM files can be fetched from remote repositories and parsed by Gradle. In Gradle 7.6.3 and 8.4, resolving XML external entities has been disabled for all use cases to protect against this vulnerability. Gradle will now refuse to parse XML files that have XML external entities.

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdosvcert_bundNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2023-10-06modified 2026-06-17
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references (15)

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