CVE-2026-85250

Published: Ott 19, 2026 Last Modified: Ott 19, 2026
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HIGH 7,5
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: high
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Description

AI Translation Available

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in Apache Camel XPath component.

This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1.

With documentType set to InputSource, XPathBuilder handed the payload straight to javax.xml.xpath, which builds a DocumentBuilder of its own using the JDK defaults. The hardening applied to Camel's default document type was therefore bypassed: a DOCTYPE declaration that is refused on the default type was accepted here, and the external entity it declared was resolved and expanded into the evaluated document. An external sender whose XML reaches such an expression could read files readable by the Camel process and cause the process to issue requests to hosts it names. The two document types disagreeing on parser configuration is what made this reachable, since a deployment choosing InputSource for streaming reasons had no indication it was also choosing a weaker parser.

Upgrade to Apache Camel 4.23.0, which fixes the issue. Users on the 4.18.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.18.5. Users on the 4.22.x LTS releases stream should upgrade to 4.22.1. The InputSource document type now goes through the same hardened parser as the default type, so a DOCTYPE is refused. Note that it also shares that type's documented escape hatch: the same DocumentBuilderFactory system properties that relax the default type relax this one, so a deployment that has set them remains unprotected by design. For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, do not use documentType=InputSource on expressions evaluated over untrusted XML; the default document type already refuses a DOCTYPE.

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System)

Trend Analysis

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EPSS Score
0,0054
Percentile
0,4th
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Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

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Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Confidentiality Integrity Availability
Potential Impacts:
Read Application Data Read Files Or Directories Bypass Protection Mechanism Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu) Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Applicable Platforms
Languages: Not Language-Specific, XML
Technologies: Not Technology-Specific, Web Based
View CWE Details
https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2026-85250.html
https://github.com/apache/camel/pull/25683
https://github.com/apache/camel/pull/25940
https://github.com/apache/camel/pull/25942
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-24475