Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.

CVE-2011-3600 Details

Description

The /webtools/control/xmlrpc endpoint in OFBiz XML-RPC event handler is exposed to External Entity Injection by passing DOCTYPE declarations with executable payloads that discloses the contents of files in the filesystem. In addition, it can also be used to probe for open network ports, and figure out from returned error messages whether a file exists or not. This affects OFBiz 16.11.01 to 16.11.04.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ofbiz-user/201810.mbox/%3Cfad45546-af86-0293-9ea7-014553474b30%40apache.org%3E	CVE
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3600	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3600	CVE	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7793319ae80ec350f7b82a8763460944f120ebe447f14a12155d0550%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E	CVE
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3600	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ofbiz-user/201810.mbox/%3Cfad45546-af86-0293-9ea7-014553474b30%40apache.org%3E	[email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3600	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3600	[email protected]	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7793319ae80ec350f7b82a8763460944f120ebe447f14a12155d0550%40%3Ccommits.ofbiz.apache.org%3E	[email protected]
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3600	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

see all 10 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-611	Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
apache ofbiz	>= 16.11.01, <= 16.11.04
CPE cpe:2.3:a:apache:ofbiz:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 13, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 16, 2019	Initial Analysis	[email protected]