| Name | CVE-2019-17637 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2404-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| eclipse-wtp (PTS) | bullseye | 3.18-5 | fixed |
| bookworm, sid, trixie | 3.18-6 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458571
http://git.eclipse.org/c/sourceediting/webtools.sourceediting.git/commit/?id=9644d4217cd6e3be367d654a8320104d88ddfd6b
Issue fixed along when packaging 3.18 upstream version as in the Debian
source (re)packaging the DTDParser.java and DTDValidator.java were removed.