CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-8739.md

### [CVE-2016-8739](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8739)
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### Description

The JAX-RS module in Apache CXF prior to 3.0.12 and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.9 provides a number of Atom JAX-RS MessageBodyReaders. These readers use Apache Abdera Parser which expands XML entities by default which represents a major XXE risk.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/0ang3el/Unsafe-JAX-RS-Burp
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon