CVE-2017-12620 - Apache OpenNLP XXE vulnerability

Severity: Medium Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: OpenNLP 1.5.0 to 1.5.3 OpenNLP 1.6.0 OpenNLP 1.7.0 to 1.7.2 OpenNLP 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 Description: When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. Mitigation: All users who load models or XML dictionaries from untrusted sources should update to 1.8.2. Example: An attacker can place this: ]> &sp; Inside one of the XML files, either a dictionary or embedded inside a