CVE-2023-38693: Lucee RCE/XXE Vulnerability
Impact The Lucee team received a responsible disclosure of a security vulnerability which affects all previous releases of Lucee. After reviewing the report and confirming the vulnerability, the Lucee team then conducted a further security review and found additional vulnerabilities which have been addressed as part of this this security update.
Published Mar 5, 2025
Affected packages
org.lucee:lucee
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 5.3.10.79-RC, < 5.3.12.1
- Fixed in
- 5.3.12.1
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.lucee:lucee
org.lucee:lucee
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 5.4.0.65-RC, < 5.4.3.2
- Fixed in
- 5.4.3.2
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.lucee:lucee
org.lucee:lucee
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- <= 5.3.7.59
- Fixed in
- No patched version yet
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.lucee:lucee
org.lucee:lucee
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 5.3.8.132-RC, < 5.3.8.236
- Fixed in
- 5.3.8.236
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.lucee:lucee
org.lucee:lucee
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Affected
- >= 5.3.9.113, < 5.3.9.173
- Fixed in
- 5.3.9.173
- Check
mvn dependency:tree -Dincludes=org.lucee:lucee
Advisory details
From the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0).
Impact
The Lucee team received a responsible disclosure of a security vulnerability which affects all previous releases of Lucee.
After reviewing the report and confirming the vulnerability, the Lucee team then conducted a further security review and found additional vulnerabilities which have been addressed as part of this this security update.
Patches
Lucee 5.4.3.2 and 5.3.12.1 stable releases have been patched with additional hardening
The older releases, 5.3.7.59., 5.3.8.236 and 5.3.9.173 have also been patched
Any users running older release, should plan to immediately upgrade to the latest stable release
6.0 will have a RC as it's not yet released
Credited to rootxharsh, zspitzer.
References
How this page is made: the data panel comes from the GitHub Advisory Database, CISA’s KEV catalog, the NVD and FIRST EPSS, and updates twice a day. No analysis has been written for this entry yet. Methodology