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Lucee RCE/XXE Vulnerability

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 5, 2025 in lucee/Lucee • Updated Mar 5, 2025

Package

maven org.lucee:lucee (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 5.3.10.79-RC, < 5.3.12.1
>= 5.4.0.65-RC, < 5.4.3.2
<= 5.3.7.59
>= 5.3.8.132-RC, < 5.3.8.236
>= 5.3.9.113, < 5.3.9.173

Patched versions

5.3.12.1
5.4.3.2
5.3.8.236
5.3.9.173

Description

Impact

The Lucee team received a responsible disclosure of a security vulnerability which affects all previous releases of Lucee.

After reviewing the report and confirming the vulnerability, the Lucee team then conducted a further security review and found additional vulnerabilities which have been addressed as part of this this security update.

Patches

Lucee 5.4.3.2 and 5.3.12.1 stable releases have been patched with additional hardening

The older releases, 5.3.7.59., 5.3.8.236 and 5.3.9.173 have also been patched

Any users running older release, should plan to immediately upgrade to the latest stable release

6.0 will have a RC as it's not yet released

References

@zspitzer zspitzer published to lucee/Lucee Mar 5, 2025
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 5, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 5, 2025
Reviewed Mar 5, 2025
Last updated Mar 5, 2025

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-38693

GHSA ID

GHSA-vwjx-mmwm-pwrf

Source code

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