CVE-2025-4949

XXE vulnerability in Eclipse JGit

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 6.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.84 % · percentile 58 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-05-21
Updated: 2025-10-14
Assigner: eclipse
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

In Eclipse JGit versions 7.2.0.202503040940-r and older, the ManifestParser class used by the repo command and the AmazonS3 class used to implement the experimental amazons3 git transport protocol allowing to store git pack files in an Amazon S3 bucket, are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks when parsing XML files. This vulnerability can lead to information disclosure, denial of service, and other security issues.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 6.8	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:L/U:Green	eclipse
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 6.8	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:L/U:Green	NVD · emo@eclipse.org (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

Advisories

GHSA-vrpq-qp53-qv56 — Eclipse JGit XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-15988
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-4949

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0905 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle Database Server · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0622 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 5.13.4
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 6.0.0 < 6.10.1.202505221210
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.0.0 < 7.0.1.202505221510
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.1.0 < 7.1.1.202505221757
cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 7.2.0 < 7.2.1.202505142326

Affected products

Product	Versions
Eclipse JGit · Eclipse JGit	affected 7.2.0 < 7.2.1.202505142326-r ; affected 7.1.0 < 7.1.1.202505221757-r ; affected 7.0.0 < 7.0.1.202505221510-r ; affected 0 < 5.13.4.202507202350-r ; affected 6.0.0 < 6.10.1.202505221210-r
Eclipse JGit · Eclipse JGit	affected 7.2.0 < 7.2.1.202505142326-r ; affected 7.1.0 < 7.1.1.202505221757-r ; affected 7.0.0 < 7.0.1.202505221510-r ; affected 0 < 5.13.4.202507202350-r ; affected 6.0.0 < 6.10.1.202505221210-r

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD