High
Security advisory
The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8739
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.
osv:CVE-2016-8739
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8739",
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"title": "CVE-2016-8739",
"summary": "The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.",
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"versions": [
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"3.1.1",
"3.1.2",
"3.1.3",
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"cxf-3.1.0",
"cxf-3.0.5",
"cxf-3.0.4",
"cxf-3.0.3",
"cxf-3.0.2",
"cxf-3.0.0",
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"cxf-2.5.0",
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"cxf-2.3.0",
"cxf-2.2.2",
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"cxf-2.2",
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"database_specific": {
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],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:24.732311033Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4%40%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0868"
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"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 431206,
"published_at": "2017-08-10T18:29:00.19+00:00"
}