# CVE-2025-24910: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference


- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 17 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-728w-fq42-m52c

## 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 (Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference)

## 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24910 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24910 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, published on 16 Apr 2025. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24910 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24910/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24910/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24910
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24910
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24910

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24910/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.