CVE-2022-2838: Eclipse Sphinx

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Eclipse Sphinx™ before version 0.13.1, Apache Xerces XML Parser was used without disabling processing of referenced external entities allowing the injection of arbitrary definitions which is able to access local files and expose their contents via HTTP requests.

Affected products

• Eclipse Sphinx: from 0.7.0, before 0.13.1 (fixed in 0.13.1)

Published 2022-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.