CVE-2016-8739: Apache Cxf

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Cxf: up to and including 3.0.11; version 3.1.0 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.2 only; version 3.1.3 only; version 3.1.4 only; …

Published 2017-08-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.