CVE-2026-91858
| Severity | 6.5 Medium CVSS 3.1 |
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| Weakness | XML external entity (XXE) (CWE-611) |
| Published | 19 Oct 2026 |
Published 26 days ago. NVD often adds the list of affected products days or weeks after a CVE is published, and the other sources we check lag too. The scope and status here may change.
Description
FopProducer transforms the incoming XSL-FO message body by creating a javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory through TransformerFactory.newInstance() and enabling only FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING before running an identity transform over the body. On the JDK's built-in transformer, that feature alone already empties the accessExternalDTD and accessExternalStylesheet limits, so an external DTD or entity is refused. When a third-party JAXP TransformerFactory such as Saxon-HE is on the classpath, for example because the application also uses camel-xslt-saxon or camel-saxon, TransformerFactory.newInstance() returns that implementation instead, and FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING on its own does not restrict external resource access on it. A DOCTYPE with an external subset, or an external general entity, declared in the XSL-FO document is then resolved and expanded while the body is transformed. An external sender whose XSL-FO reaches a fop producer could therefore read files readable by the Camel process and cause the process to issue requests to hosts the document names. camel-fop does not bring such a factory itself, and excludes Xalan, so a default deployment using the JDK transformer is not affected; the issue is reachable only where another component has placed an alternative JAXP TransformerFactory on the classpath. Releases on the 4.14.x line and earlier reached end of life before this issue was resolved and do not receive a fix.
Exploitation status
No public exploit
No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. The 1 repository below are public GitHub repositories with fewer than 5 stars.
Exploitation status
- CISA KEV not listed
- VulnCheck KEV not listed
- CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
- Indexed PoC 1 indexed, none at 5+ stars
- EPSS 0.31% chance in 30 days
| Index | Artifact | Stars | First seen |
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| GitHub PoC | Reproducer for CVE-2026-91858 — Apache Camel camel-fop XML External Entity (XXE) via a third-party TransformerFactory (CWE-611). Camel Spring Boot + Camel Quarkus. | 2026-10-21 |
Waratek protection
Waratek has a rule that blocks attacks on this vulnerability.
- Protection full XXE
- Action available security rule
- Review automated Inferred
- Record active
| Decided by | A vulnerability class already blocked by an ARMR security rule |
|---|---|
| Finding | Protected by Waratek's ARMR xxe security rule, which blocks this class of attack at the JVM level without a rule written for this CVE specifically. The CVE's weakness is CWE-611: XML External Entity Reference. |
| Candidate fix | https://github.com/apache/camel/pull/26108 : a pull request: the change under review |
How to mitigate CVE-2026-91858
Apply the vendor's fix. Until you can, Waratek RASP blocks exploitation with its XXE rule. It runs inside the Java application, with no code changes.
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Timeline
Timeline
| Published | 2026-10-19 | By the CVE Program. |
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| NVD record modified | 2026-10-19 | NVD's own last-modified date for this record. |