Bug#984829: batik: CVE-2020-11987

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: batik
Version: 1.12-4
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

The following vulnerability was published for batik.

CVE-2020-11987[0]:
| Apache Batik 1.13 is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused
| by improper input validation by the NodePickerPanel. By using a
| specially-crafted argument, an attacker could exploit this
| vulnerability to cause the underlying server to make arbitrary GET
| requests.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-11987
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11987
[1] https://github.com/apache/xmlgraphics-batik/commit/0ef5b661a1f77772d1110877ea9e0287987098f6

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore