CVE-2024-52007

HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. XSLT parsing performed by various components are vulnerable to XML external entity injections. A processed XML file with a malicious DTD tag ( <!DOCTYPE foo [<!ENTITY example SYSTEM "/etc/passwd"> ]> could produce XML containing data from the host system. This impacts use cases where org.hl7.fhir.core is being used to within a host where external clients can submit XML. This is related to GHSA-6cr6-ph3p-f5rf, in which its fix (#1571 & #1717) was incomplete. This issue has been addressed in release version 6.4.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-52007 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-52007.

URL	Resource
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#jaxp-documentbuilderfactory-saxparserfactory-and-dom4j
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/611.html
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/issues/1571
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/pull/1717
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-6cr6-ph3p-f5rf
https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/security/advisories/GHSA-gr3c-q7xf-47vh
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52007
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52007