CVE-2019-10782 — All versions of com

All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658.

01What is this vulnerability?

All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle	all versions before 8.29

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-01-30T22:16:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T22:32:01.605Z

09References

• snyk.io — https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMPUPPYCRAWLTOOLS-543266
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00008.html
• lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8aaf4ee16bbaf6204731d4770d96ebb34b258cd79b…