XXE vulnerability in OpenHAB
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
openHAB is a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home. In openHAB before versions 2.5.12 and 3.0.1 the XML external entity (XXE) attack allows attackers in the same network as the openHAB instance to retrieve internal information like the content of files from the file system. Responses to SSDP requests can be especially malicious. All add-ons that use SAX or JAXB parsing of externally received XML are potentially subject to this kind of attack. In openHAB, the following add-ons are potentially impacted: AvmFritz, BoseSoundtouch, DenonMarantz, DLinkSmarthome, Enigma2, FmiWeather, FSInternetRadio, Gce, Homematic, HPPrinter, IHC, Insteon, Onkyo, Roku, SamsungTV, Sonos, Roku, Tellstick, TR064, UPnPControl, Vitotronic, Wemo, YamahaReceiver and XPath Tranformation. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in versions 2.5.12 and 3.0.1 by a more strict configuration of the used XML parser.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openhab | openhab-addons | before 2.5.12; = 3.0.0 | 2.5.12 | Patch available | CNA |
- openhab-addons Vendoropenhab Affected before 2.5.12; = 3.0.0 Fixed in 2.5.12 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA openhab-addons (openhab) Fixed in 2.5.12
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-21266
References
Patch 2
More Openhab vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-28437 CometVisu Backend for openHAB affected by RCE through path traversal CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-28438 CometVisu Backend for openHAB has a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2020-04298 openHAB exec add-ons allow remote arbitrary command execution CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-28436 Path traversal (CometVisu) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
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