Description
A vulnerability was found in Hibernate-Validator. The SafeHtml validator annotation fails to properly sanitize payloads consisting of potentially malicious code in HTML comments and instructions. This vulnerability can result in an XSS attack.
Affected products
redhat: hibernate validator; redhat: fuse; redhat: jboss data grid; redhat: jboss enterprise application platform; redhat: openshift application runtimes; redhat: single sign-on; redhat: enterprise linux; netapp: active iq unified manager; netapp: management services for element software and netapp hci; netapp: snapcenter plug-in; netapp: element; oracle: access manager; oracle: agile engineering data management; oracle: agile product lifecycle analytics; oracle: agile product lifecycle management
References10
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0159 Third Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0160 Third Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0161 Third Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0164 Third Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0445 Third Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10219 Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/124b7dd6d9a4ad2…
- github.com/hibernate/hibernate-validator/commit/20d729548511ac5…
- github.com/poc-effectiveness/PoCAdaptation/tree/main/Adapted/CV…
- github.com/poc-effectiveness/PoCAdaptation/tree/main/Origin/CVE…
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.1
MEDIUM
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 2% percentile: 82 · as of 3 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-79
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