java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java in the default servlet in Apache Tomcat before 6.0.40, 7.x before 7.0.53, and 8.x before 8.0.4 does not properly restrict XSLT stylesheets, which allows remote attackers to bypass security-manager restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted web application that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
{
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-20"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2014-05-31T11:17:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2022-07-07T22:54:11Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
}