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
XML external entity injection in Terracotta Quartz Scheduler
initDocumentParser in xml/XMLSchedulingDataProcessor.java in Terracotta Quartz Scheduler through 2.3.0 allows XXE attacks via a job description.
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Critical 9.8CVE-2019-1010268 Public exploit
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in ladon
Ladon since 0.6.1 (since ebef0aae48af78c159b6fce81bc6f5e7e0ddb059) is affected by: XML External Entity (XXE). The impact is: Information Disclosure, reading files and reaching internal network endpoints. The component is: SOAP request handlers. For instance: …
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Critical 9.8
mailboxd component in Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite 8.7.x before 8.7.11p10 has an XML External Entity injection (X…
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Medium 4.9CVE-2019-1698 Public exploit
Cisco IoT Field Network Director XML External Entity Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of Cisco Internet of Things Field Network Director (IoT-FND) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to information that is stored on an affected system. The vulnerability is d…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2018-11788 Public exploit
XML External Entity Reference in Apache Karaf
Apache Karaf provides a features deployer, which allows users to "hot deploy" a features XML by dropping the file directly in the deploy folder. The features XML is parsed by XMLInputFactory class. Apache Karaf XMLInputFactory class doesn't contain any mitiga…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2018-20433 Public exploit
XML External Entity Reference in mchange:c3p0
c3p0 0.9.5.2 allows XXE in extractXmlConfigFromInputStream in com/mchange/v2/c3p0/cfg/C3P0ConfigXmlUtils.java during initialization.
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Critical 9.1CVE-2018-1000844 Public exploit
XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Square Retrofit
Square Open Source Retrofit version Prior to commit 4a693c5aeeef2be6c7ecf80e7b5ec79f6ab59437 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in JAXB that can result in An attacker could use this to remotely read files from the file system or to perform SSR…
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High 7.5CVE-2018-11761 Public exploit
High severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.tika:tika-core
In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.
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High 7.5CVE-2018-1259 Public exploit
Spring Data Commons, used in combination with XMLBeam, contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references
Spring Data Commons, versions 1.13 prior to 1.13.12 and 2.0 prior to 2.0.7, used in combination with XMLBeam 1.4.14 or earlier versions, contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references as underlying li…
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Low 3.1
Windows Remote Assistance in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windo…
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High 8.8CVE-2017-9096 Public exploit
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in iText
The XML parsers in iText before 5.5.12 and 7.x before 7.0.3 do not disable external entities, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.
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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 9.8CVE-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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Medium —CVE-2015-5161 Public exploit
ZendXml and Zend Framework contain XXE and XEE Vulnerabilities
The Zend_Xml_Security::scan in ZendXml before 1.0.1 and Zend Framework before 1.12.14, 2.x before 2.4.6, and 2.5.x before 2.5.2, when running under PHP-FPM in a threaded environment, allows remote attackers to bypass security checks and conduct XML external e…
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Medium —CVE-2014-3004 Public exploit
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Castor
The default configuration for the Xerces SAX Parser in Castor before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted XML document.
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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 …
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High 7.5
CakePHPallows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via XML data containing external entity references
The Xml class in CakePHP 2.1.x before 2.1.5 and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via XML data containing external entity references, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.
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Medium 6.5
phpMyAdmin vulnerable to XML external entity (XXE) injection attack
The simplexml_load_string function in the XML import plug-in (libraries/import/xml.php) in phpMyAdmin 3.4.x before 3.4.7.1 and 3.3.x before 3.3.10.5 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via XML data containing external entity references, …