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CVE-2019-9658

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle

Impact

Checkstyle prior to 8.18 loads external DTDs by default, which can potentially lead to denial of service attacks or the leaking of confidential information.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavencom.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle< 8.188.18

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CheckstyleCheckstyle
before 8.18
DebianDebian Linux
Version 8.0
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 28, 29

Weakness classification

References