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ASF GitHub Bot commented on HDFS-16766:
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ashutoshcipher opened a new pull request, #4886:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/4886
### Description of PR
XML External Entity (XXE) attacks can occur while processing XML received
from an untrusted source.
Solution - Change done in this PR disables DTDs regardless of the parser
type in case the parser changes later to mitigate the issue.
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> XML External Entity (XXE) attacks can occur while processing XML received
> from an untrusted source
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>
> Key: HDFS-16766
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-16766
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: security
> Affects Versions: 3.3.4
> Reporter: Jing
> Assignee: Ashutosh Gupta
> Priority: Major
>
> XML External Entity (XXE) attacks can occur when an XML parser supports XML
> entities while processing XML received from an untrusted source. The attack
> resides in XML input containing references to an external entity an is parsed
> by the weakly configured javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder XML parser.
>
> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/util/ECPolicyLoader.java#L93
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