Severity:
CVSS 3.1: 8.6 (high) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected versions:
- Apache Camel Quarkus (org.apache.camel.quarkus:camel-quarkus-support-xalan)
3.2.0 before 3.33.3
- Apache Camel Quarkus (org.apache.camel.quarkus:camel-quarkus-support-xalan)
3.34.0 before 3.40.0
- Apache Camel Quarkus (org.apache.camel.quarkus:camel-quarkus-support-xalan)
3.33.3 unaffected
- Apache Camel Quarkus (org.apache.camel.quarkus:camel-quarkus-support-xalan)
3.40.0 unaffected
Description:
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in the XSLT support
extension (camel-quarkus-support-xalan) in Apache Camel Quarkus from 3.2.0
before 3.33.3 and from 3.34.0 before 3.40.0 on all platforms allows an attacker
who supplies the XML document being transformed to read local files or issue
requests to internal network locations via an external entity declaration in
that document.
The extension supplies its own Xalan-backed TransformerFactory to the xslt
component and registers it as the JAXP default. Xalan-J 2.7.x predates JAXP 1.5
and does not honour javax.xml.XMLConstants.ACCESS_EXTERNAL_DTD or
ACCESS_EXTERNAL_STYLESHEET, so the external access restrictions Apache Camel
applies to the TransformerFactory it creates were not in effect. On the xslt
component path this affects message bodies that reach the transformer already
as a javax.xml.transform.Source; bodies of other types are converted to a
SAXSource by Apache Camel with external entities and external DTD loading
disabled, and are not affected. Because the factory is also the JAXP default,
other code in the application obtaining one through
TransformerFactory.newInstance() loses the same restrictions without error.
Applications are affected if they use any of camel-quarkus-xslt,
camel-quarkus-xslt-saxon, camel-quarkus-tika or camel-quarkus-xmlsecurity, each
of which brings the XSLT support extension onto the classpath. For all but
camel-quarkus-xslt, the exposure is limited to the JAXP default factory, since
those extensions do not perform XSLT transformations themselves.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.33.3 or 3.40.0, which fixes this
issue.
References:
https://github.com/apache/camel-quarkus/commit/9a570b64977b0e24f85d67c2b2220aeac9fa5274
https://github.com/apache/camel-quarkus/commit/9dd11779580cd88e4ab01b23717cd0167f26155c
https://github.com/apache/camel-quarkus/issues/9115
https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2026-88789.html
https://camel.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88789
