{"id":"CVE-2019-17637","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-17637","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:26:46.870Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2020-07-15T15:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:24:19.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"emo@eclipse.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-611"],"affected":["eclipse/web tools platform","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00879,"percentile":0.58822,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.88%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458571","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"emo@eclipse.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00016.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"emo@eclipse.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458571","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00016.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17637","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}