CVE-2023-4586 - Improper Input Validation

Abstract

A vulnerability was found in the Hot Rod client. This security issue occurs as the Hot Rod client does not enable hostname validation when using TLS, possibly resulting in a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

The Oxygen products incorporate netty as a third-party library. This advisory was opened to address the potential impact of this third-party library vulnerability.

Affected Products/Versions

Mitigation

None

Detail

CVE-2023-4586

Severity: High

CVSS Score: 7.4

The netty third-party library used by Oxygen XML products is an affected version mentioned in CVE-2023-4586 vulnerability description.
Oxygen Content Fusion uses netty library only to connect internally and doesn't use hostname verification with this library. For that reason, Oxygen XML products are not affected by this vulnerability.