CVE-2021-33813
An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request.
02 Description
An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 19.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 97.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-06-16 11:18Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 23:58Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-06-03
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-611Improper Restriction of XML External Entity ReferenceBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0ce270c3ce5bcae6b835c30c50b9f4b85ec2a48162bc0d9c5625781bafb08d47
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/pull/188
- github.comhttps://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/releases
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20210629 [SECURITY] [DLA 2696-1] libjdom2-java security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00026.html
- lists.apache.org[solr-issues] 20210711 [jira] [Created] (SOLR-15529) High security vulnerability in JDOM library bundled within Solr 8.9 CVE-2021-33813https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9974f64723875052e02787b2a5eda689ac5247c71b827d455e5dc9a6%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[solr-issues] 20210711 [jira] [Updated] (SOLR-15529) High security vulnerability in JDOM library bundled within Solr 8.9 CVE-2021-33813https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rbc075a4ac85e7a8e47420b7383f16ffa0af3b792b8423584735f369f%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[solr-issues] 20210711 [jira] [Created] (SOLR-15530) High security vulnerability in jackson-databind bundled within Solr 8.9https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r89b3800cfabb1e773e49425e5d4239c28a659839a2eca6af3431482e%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20210720 [SECURITY] [DLA 2712-1] libjdom1-java security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00012.html
- lists.apache.org[tika-dev] 20210721 [jira] [Created] (TIKA-3488) Security issue XXE in TIKA due to JDOMhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb7a93e40ebeb1e0068cde0bf3834dcab46bb1ef06d6424db48ed9fd%40%3Cdev.tika.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[solr-issues] 20210813 [jira] [Commented] (SOLR-15529) High security vulnerability in JDOM library bundled within Solr 8.9 CVE-2021-33813https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r845e987b7cd8efe610284958e997b84583f5a98d3394adc09e3482fe%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[solr-issues] 20210813 [jira] [Updated] (SOLR-15529) High security vulnerability in JDOM library bundled within Solr 8.9 CVE-2021-33813https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5674106135bb1a6ef57483f4c63a9c44bca85d0e2a8a05895a8f1d89%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[solr-issues] 20210819 [jira] [Commented] (SOLR-15529) High security vulnerability in JDOM library bundled within Solr 8.9 CVE-2021-33813https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6db397ae7281ead825338200d1f62d2827585a70797cc9ac0c4bd23f%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[solr-issues] 20210819 [jira] [Resolved] (SOLR-15529) High security vulnerability in JDOM library bundled within Solr 8.9 CVE-2021-33813https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r21c406c7ed88fe340db7dbae75e58355159e6c324037c7d5547bf40b%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-3cb0d02576https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AH46QHE5GIMT6BL6C3GDTOYF27JYILXM/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-f88d2dcc47https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EWFVYTHGILOQXUA7U3SPOERQXL7OPSZG/
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- alephsecurity.comhttps://alephsecurity.com/vulns/aleph-2021003
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libjdom1-java Fixed in 1.1.3-2.1
- libjdom2-intellij-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java Fixed in 2.0.6-2.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libjdom1-java Fixed in 1.1.3-2.1
- libjdom2-intellij-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java Fixed in 2.0.6-2.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libjdom1-java Fixed in 1.1.3-2.1
- libjdom2-intellij-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java Fixed in 2.0.6-2.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 25.10
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.10
- libjdom1-java No fix yet
- libjdom2-java No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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