CVE-2023-27476 — XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in Owslib
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 8
Description
OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service interface standards, and their related content models. OWSLib's XML parser (which supports both `lxml` and `xml.etree`) does not disable entity resolution, and could lead to arbitrary file reads from an attacker-controlled XML payload. This affects all XML parsing in the codebase. This issue has been addressed in version 0.28.1. All users are advised to upgrade. The only known workaround is to pat…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages5 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2023-27476: OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web service interface standards, and their related content mod↗2023-03-08
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2023-27476: owslib - OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with Open Geospatial Consortiu...↗2023