Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
The product processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output.
How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
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Implementation, System Configuration
Many XML parsers and validators can be configured to disable external entity expansion.
Source: MITRE CWE-611
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Critical 9.8
Apache ActiveMQ Apollo XXE Vulnerability
XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Apollo 1.x before 1.7.1 allows remote consumers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving an XPath based selector when dequeuing XML messages.
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Critical 9.8
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache ActiveMQ
XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ 5.x before 5.10.1 allows remote consumers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving an XPath based selector when dequeuing XML messages.
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Critical 9.8
Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr
Remote code execution occurs in Apache Solr before 7.1 with Apache Lucene before 7.1 by exploiting XXE in conjunction with use of a Config API add-listener command to reach the RunExecutableListener class. Elasticsearch, although it uses Lucene, is NOT vulner…
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Critical 9.8
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache OpenNLP
When loading models or dictionaries that contain XML it is possible to perform an XXE attack, since Apache OpenNLP is a library, this only affects applications that load models or dictionaries from untrusted sources. The versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.3, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 …
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Critical 9.8
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Jelly
During Jelly (xml) file parsing with Apache Xerces, if a custom doctype entity is declared with a "SYSTEM" entity with a URL and that entity is used in the body of the Jelly file, during parser instantiation the parser will attempt to connect to said URL. Thi…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2016-6798 Public exploit
XML External Entity Reference in Apache Sling
In the XSS Protection API module before 1.0.12 in Apache Sling, the method XSS.getValidXML() uses an insecure SAX parser to validate the input string, which allows for XXE attacks in all scripts which use this method to validate user input, potentially allowi…
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Critical 10.0
Apache OpenMeetings does not correctly validate uploaded XML documents
Uploaded XML documents were not correctly validated in Apache OpenMeetings 3.1.0.
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Critical 9.0
PySAML2 XML external entity attack
PySAML2 allows remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted SAML XML request or response.
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Critical 9.1CVE-2015-1832 EPSS 12%
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apace Derby
XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the SqlXmlUtil code in Apache Derby before 10.12.1.1, when a Java Security Manager is not in place, allows context-dependent attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via v…
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Critical 9.8
jackson-dataformat-xml vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE)
XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in XmlMapper in the Data format extension for Jackson (aka jackson-dataformat-xml) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
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Critical 9.1
Zend Framework XXE Vulnerability
Zend_XmlRpc in Zend Framework 1.x before 1.11.12 and 1.12.x before 1.12.0 does not properly handle SimpleXMLElement classes, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or create TCP connections via an external entity reference in a DOCTYPE element …