CVE-2019-9658 (Medium) detected in checkstyle-7.2.jar

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CVE-2019-9658 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - checkstyle-7.2.jar

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard

Library home page: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/

Path to dependency file: cloud-pipeline/cloud-pipeline-webdav-client/build.gradle

Path to vulnerable library: canner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.puppycrawl.tools/checkstyle/7.2/5e3e4d1043fb25b0b4c0726c133a6c7ef541333b/checkstyle-7.2.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ checkstyle-7.2.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 1db3170e0bd699acd5fec6e3fcebfa68fe86edcf

Found in base branch: develop

Vulnerability Details

Checkstyle before 8.18 loads external DTDs by default.

Publish Date: 2019-03-11

URL: CVE-2019-9658

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.3)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: Low
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: checkstyle/checkstyle#6474

Release Date: 2019-03-11

Fix Resolution: checkstyle-8.18

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