WS-2016-7062 (Medium) detected in plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar - autoclosed

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WS-2016-7062 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar

A collection of various utility classes to ease working with strings, files, command lines, XML and more.

Path to dependency file: WinterEE/WinterEE-API/pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.22/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar,/home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.22/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar,/home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.22/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar,/home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.22/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar,/home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.22/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar,/home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.22/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar,/home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.22/plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar

Dependency Hierarchy: - jacoco-maven-plugin-0.8.6.jar (Root Library) - :x: **plexus-utils-3.0.22.jar** (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 9d57f3481f4a0f678edb6631b7924d697b67b48b

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

Security vulnerability found in plexus-utils before 3.0.24. XML injection found in XmlWriterUtil.java.

Publish Date: 2016-05-07

URL: WS-2016-7062

CVSS 2 Score Details (5.0)

Base Score Metrics not available

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/f933e5e78dc2637e485447ed821fe14904f110de

Release Date: 2019-09-26

Fix Resolution: 3.0.24

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