CVE-2021-44477 HIGH

CVE-2021-44477: GE Gas Power ToolBoxST Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Vendor Ge Gas Power
Product ToolBoxST
Weakness CWE-611 · XXE
Published March 25, 2022
Last update April 16, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

GE Gas Power ToolBoxST Version v04.07.05C suffers from an XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability using the DTD parameter entities technique that could result in disclosure and retrieval of arbitrary data on the affected node via an out-of-band (OOB) attack. The vulnerability is triggered when input passed to the XML parser is not sanitized while parsing the XML project/template file.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 25, 2022 CVE published
April 16, 2025 Record updated