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TI-2025-16980 Aliases CVE-2025-23195GHSA-jjxh-vpf5-jm42

Apache Ambari: XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in Ambari/Oozie

Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-611Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-611 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the Ambari/Oozie project, allowing an attacker to inject malicious XML entities. This vulnerability occurs due to insecure parsing of XML input using the `DocumentBuilderFactory` class without disabling external entity resolution. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server or perform server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The issue has been fixed in both Ambari 2.7.9 and the trunk branch.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.008 56th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Apache Ambari (Apache Software Foundation): 2.7.9

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ApacheApache Ambaribefore 2.7.92.7.9Patch availableCNA
  • Apache Ambari VendorApache Affected before 2.7.9 Fixed in 2.7.9 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ambari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 2.7.9VulnerableApache
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:ambari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 2.7.9 Vulnerable ·Apache

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Apache Ambari (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 2.7.9

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Apache Ambari 2.7.9

    2 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 2 MEDIUM

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2025-16981 Apache Ambari: Code Injection Vulnerability in Ambari Alert DefinitionPriority MEDIUM 43
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Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-23195
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jjxh-vpf5-jm42

References

Advisory 2

  • TI-2016-05848 Improper access control in Apache Ambari CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2017-03642 During installation of Ambari 2.4.0 through 2.4.2, Ambari Server artifacts are not created with proper ACLs. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2014-02906 In Ambari 1.2.0 through 2.2.2, it may be possible to execute arbitrary system commands on… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2025-16981 Apache Ambari: Code Injection Vulnerability in Ambari Alert Definition CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2024-34845 Apache Ambari: Remote Code Injection in Ambari Metrics and AMS Alerts CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2023-27565 Apache Ambari: authenticated users could perform command injection to perform RCE CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
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Sources

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