CVE-2025-53621
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
DSpace is vulnerable to XML External Entity injection during archive imports
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.dspace:dspace-api | <7.6.4 | 7.6.4 |
| Maven | org.dspace:dspace-api | >=8.0,<8.2 | 8.2 |
| Maven | org.dspace:dspace-api | >=9.0,<9.1 | 9.1 |
References
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/security/advisories/GHSA-jjwr-5cfh-7xwh
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53621
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/11032
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/11032.patch
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/11034
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/11034.patch
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/11035
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/11035.patch
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.