Advisories for Maven/Com.powsybl/Powsybl-Commons package

2025

PowSyBl Core XML Reader allows XXE and SSRF

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted? In certain places, powsybl-core XML parsing is vulnerable to an XXE attack and in on place also to an SSRF attack. This allows an attacker to elevate their privileges to read files that they do not have permissions to, including sensitive files on the system. The vulnerable class is com.powsybl.commons.xml.XmlReader which is considered to be untrusted in use cases where untrusted …

PowSyBl Core contains Polynomial REDoS’es

What kind of vulnerability is it? Who is impacted? This is an advisory for a potential polynomial Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the PowSyBl's DataSource mechanism. When the listNames(String regex) method is called on a DataSource, the user-supplied regular expression (which may be unvalidated) is compiled and evaluated against a collection of file-like resource names. To trigger a polynomial ReDoS via this mechanism, two attacker-controlled conditions must …