CVE-2019-9628: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XMLTooling library all versions prior to V3.0.4, provided with the OpenSAML and Shibboleth Service Provider software, contains an XML parsing class. Invalid data in the XML declaration causes an exception of a type that was not handled properly in the parser class and propagates an unexpected exception type.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 42.3 only
• Xmltooling Project Xmltooling: before 3.0.4 (fixed in 3.0.4)

Published 2019-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.