CVE-2020-12684 — XXE injection can occur in i-net Clear Reports 2019 19

XXE injection can occur in i-net Clear Reports 2019 19.0.287 (Designer), as used in i-net HelpDesk and other products, when XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a weakly configured XML parser.

01What is this vulnerability?

XXE injection can occur in i-net Clear Reports 2019 19.0.287 (Designer), as used in i-net HelpDesk and other products, when XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a weakly configured XML parser.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-07-15T19:09:41.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T12:04:22.509Z

09References

• www.inetsoftware.de — https://www.inetsoftware.de/documentation/clear-reports/release-notes/releases
• www.inetsoftware.de — https://www.inetsoftware.de/documentation/clear-reports/release-notes/releases/c…