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Mitigation: There are a couple of ways you can fix this vulnerability: 1) Upgrade to the latest version of Roller, which is now 5.2.2 2) Or, edit the Roller web.xml file and comment out the XML-RPC Servlet mapping as shown below: \u003c!-- \u003cservlet-mapping\u003e \u003cservlet-name\u003eXmlRpcServlet\u003c/servlet-name\u003e \u003curl-pattern\u003e/roller-services/xmlrpc\u003c/url-pattern\u003e \u003c/servlet-mapping\u003e --\u003e","severity":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-08","score":0.04124,"percentile":0.90876,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-918"],"published":"2019-05-28T17:08:11Z","modified":"2026-10-24T10:30:30Z","products":[{"vendor":"apache","product":"roller"},{"vendor":"apache software foundation","product":"apache roller"}],"references":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/94a36ed9c6241558b1c6181d8dd4ff263be7903abd1d20067d4330d5%40%3Cdev.roller.apache.org%3E","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","web"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108496","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17198"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/94a36ed9c6241558b1c6181d8dd4ff263be7903abd1d20067d4330d5@%3Cdev.roller.apache.org%3E"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-38f5-5m8x-c6h5"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2018-17198","description":"Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) and File Enumeration vulnerability in Apache Roller 5.2.1, 5.2.0 and earlier unsupported versions relies on Java SAX Parser to implement its XML-RPC interface and by default that parser supports external entities in XML DOCTYPE, which opens Roller up to SSRF / File Enumeration vulnerability. 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Note that this vulnerability exists even if Roller XML-RPC interface is disable via the Roller web admin UI. Mitigation: There are a couple of ways you can fix this vulnerability: 1) Upgrade to the latest version of Roller, which is now 5.2.2 2) Or, edit the Roller web.xml file and comment out the XML-RPC Servlet mapping as shown below: \u003c!-- \u003cservlet-mapping\u003e \u003cservlet-name\u003eXmlRpcServlet\u003c/servlet-name\u003e \u003curl-pattern\u003e/roller-services/xmlrpc\u003c/url-pattern\u003e \u003c/servlet-mapping\u003e --\u003e","status":"published","published":"2019-05-28T17:08:11Z","modified":"2024-08-05T10:47:03Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T02:39:39.229856Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-38f5-5m8x-c6h5","title":"Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) and File Enumeration vulnerability in Apache Roller 5.2.1, 5.2...","description":"Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) and File Enumeration vulnerability in Apache Roller 5.2.1, 5.2.0 and earlier unsupported versions relies on Java SAX Parser to implement its XML-RPC interface and by default that parser supports external entities in XML DOCTYPE, which opens Roller up to SSRF / File Enumeration vulnerability. 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