CVE-2025-24910 Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-24910?
CVE-2025-24910 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 16 Apr 2025.
Official description
Overview
XML documents optionally contain a Document Type Definition (DTD), which, among other features, enables the definition of XML entities. It is possible to define an entity by providing a substitution string in the form of a URI. Once the content of the URI is read, it is fed back into the application that is processing the XML. This application may echo back the data (e.g. in an error message), thereby exposing the file contents. (CWE-611)
Description
Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server versions before 10.2.0.2, including 9.3.x and 8.3.x, do not correctly protect Pentaho Data Integration MessageSourceCrawler against out-of-band XML External Entity Reference.
Impact
By submitting an XML file that defines an external entity with a file:// URI, an attacker can cause the processing application to read the contents of a local file. Using URIs with other schemes such as http://, the attacker can force the application to make outgoing requests to servers that the attacker cannot reach directly, which can be used to bypass firewall restrictions or hide the source of attacks such as port scanning.
Weakness: CWE-611
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24910?
How do I fix CVE-2025-24910?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24910 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-24910 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24910 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-728w-fq42-m52c.