CVE-2019-10782

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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.

Published: 2020-01-30 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2019-10782 is rated Exploit Available (58.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.49%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2019-10782

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2019-10782

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-21 0.40% 0.49% +0.08%
2 2025-11-18 0.49% 0.40% -0.08%
3 2025-05-05 0.49%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2019-10782

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
3.9 1.4 [email protected]
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2019-10782

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2019-10782

GHSA-763g-fqq7-48wg · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: maven — XML external entity (XXE) processing ('external-parameter-entities' feature was not fully disabled))

OS Trackers for CVE-2019-10782

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2019-10782 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (checkstyle), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-10782
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10782
ubuntu medium CVE-2019-10782 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (checkstyle), 16 status rows across 16 suites (bionic, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 12, needs-triage 2, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10782

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2019-10782

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
checkstyle checkstyle < 8.29 cpe:2.3:a:checkstyle:checkstyle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2019-10782

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