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Debian 11: DLA-4246-1 libowasp-esapi-java Critical XSS Security Update

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2025
Dist Debian Esm H88
Assessing vital security enhancements for libowasp-esapi-java in the Debian environment is crucial for addressing vulnerabilities and boosting application resilience against threats
Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in libowasp-esapi-java, a Java Enterprise Security API

Summary

CVE-2022-23457:

ESAPI (The OWASP Enterprise Security API) is a free, open source, web
application security control library. Prior to this update the default
implementation of `Validator.getValidDirectoryPath(String, String, File,
boolean)` may incorrectly treat the tested input string as a child of the
specified parent directory. This potentially could allow control-flow
bypass checks to be defeated if an attack can specify the entire string
representing the 'input' path.

CVE-2022-24891:

There is a potential for a cross-site scripting vulnerability in ESAPI
caused by a incorrect regular expression for "onsiteURL" in the
**antisamy-esapi.xml** configuration file that can cause "javascript:" URLs
to fail to be correctly sanitized.

CVE-2025-5878:

This issue affects the interface Encoder.encodeForSQL of the
SQL Injection Defense. An attack leads to an improper neutralization of

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Package: libowasp-esapi-java
Version: 2.4.0.0-0+deb11u1
CVE ID: CVE-2022-23457 CVE-2022-24891 CVE-2025-5878
Debian Bug: 1010339 1109378

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