CVE-2010-2076: Apache Cxf

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache CXF 2.0.x before 2.0.13, 2.1.x before 2.1.10, and 2.2.x before 2.2.9, as used in Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel, Apache Chemistry, Apache jUDDI, Apache Geronimo, and other products, does not properly reject DTDs in SOAP messages, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, send HTTP requests to intranet servers, or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a crafted DTD, as demonstrated by an entity declaration in a request to samples/wsdl_first_pure_xml, a similar issue to CVE-2010-1632.

Affected products

• Apache Cxf: from 2.0.6, before 2.0.13 (fixed in 2.0.13); from 2.1, before 2.1.10 (fixed in 2.1.10); from 2.2.0, before 2.2.9 (fixed in 2.2.9)

Published 2010-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.