The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 September 2021

2021-09-10 Thread Sally Khudairi
[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/cgxvx ] We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities from the Apache community: ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2021 Fiscal Year - Press release

CVE-2021-38555: An XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability exists in Apache Any23 StreamUtils.java

2021-09-10 Thread Lewis John McGibbney
Severity: critical Description: An XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability was discovered in the Any23 StreamUtils.java file and is known to affect Any23 versions < 2.5. XML external entity injection (also known as XXE) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to

CVE-2021-40146: A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability exists in Apache Any23 YAMLExtractor.java

2021-09-10 Thread Lewis John McGibbney
Description: A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability was discovered in the Any23 YAMLExtractor.java file and is known to affect Any23 versions < 2.5. RCE vulnerabilities allow a malicious actor to execute any code of their choice on a remote machine over LAN, WAN, or internet. RCE belongs