Security Update List by CVEs

Here are the known Security Vulnerabilities for Apache UIMA, listed by CVE number.

CVE-2018-8035: Apache UIMA DUCC webserver cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to unintended execution of user supplied javascript code.

Severity: Important

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
  - Apache UIMA DUCC releases including and prior to 2.2.2

Description.
The details of this vulnerability were reported to the Apache UIMA Private mailing list.

This  vulnerability relates to the user's browser processing of DUCC web page input data.

The javascript comprising Apache UIMA DUCC which runs in the user's browser does not sufficiently filter user supplied inputs, which may result in unintended execution of user supplied javascript code.

Mitigation:
Users are advised to upgrade these UIMA components to the following levels:
  - Apache UIMA DUCC: upgrade to 3.0.0 or later

Credit: Marshall Schor

CVE-2017-15691: Apache UIMA XML external entity expansion (XXE) attack exposure 

Severity: Important  

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
  - uimaj 2.x.x releases prior to 2.10.2
  - uimaj 3.0.0 releases prior to 3.0.0-beta
  - uima-as releases prior to 2.10.2
  - uimaFIT releases prior to 2.4.0
  - uimaDUCC releases prior to 2.2.2

Description.
The details of this vulnerability were reported to the Apache UIMA Private
mailing list.

This  vulnerability relates to an XML external entity expansion (XXE) capability
of various XML parsers. See
   https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing
for more details.

UIMA as part of its configuration and operation may read XML from various
sources, which could be tainted in ways to cause inadvertent disclosure of local
files or other internal content.

Mitigation:
Users are advised to upgrade these UIMA components to the following levels or later:
  - uimaj: 2.x.x upgrade to 2.10.2 or later
  - uimaj: 3.x.x upgrade to 3.0.0 or later
  - uima-as: upgrade to 2.10.2 or later
  - uimaFIT: upgrade to 2.4.0 or later
  - uimaDUCC: upgrade to 2.2.2 or later

Credit: Joern Kottmann

Reporting New Security Problems with Apache UIMA

We strongly encourage people to report new security problems to the private security mailing list of the ASF Security Team, before disclosing them in a public forum.

Please see the page of the AFS Security Team for further information and contact information.

The Security Team cannot accept regular bug reports or other queries; please use the regular UIMA mailing lists for those.

Security Standards

Apache UIMA vulnerabilities are labeled with CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) identifiers.