CVE-2025-23195 — Apache Ambari: XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in Ambari/Oozie

Description (CNA)

An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the Ambari/Oozie project, allowing an attacker to inject malicious XML entities. This vulnerability occurs due to insecure parsing of XML input using the `DocumentBuilderFactory` class without disabling external entity resolution. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server or perform server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The issue has been fixed in both Ambari 2.7.9 and the trunk branch.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation / Apache Ambari	affected 0 before 2.7.9

CWE

CWE-611

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/hsb6mvxd7g37dq1ygtd0pd88gs9tfcwq

ADP enrichment

CVE

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/21/7

CISA-ADP

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