Critical
Security advisory
HTTL (aka Hyper-Text Template Language) through 1.0.11 allows remote command execution because the decodeXml function uses java.beans.XMLEncoder unsafely when configured without an xml.codec= setting.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19531
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
HTTL (aka Hyper-Text Template Language) through 1.0.11 allows remote command execution because the decodeXml function uses java.beans.XMLEncoder unsafely when configured without an xml.codec= setting.
osv:CVE-2018-19531
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:23.633621858Z",
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"references": [
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