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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High 7.2
AIS XML parsers allow external entity resolution
XML parsers process attacker-influenced update manifests or network responses with external entity resolution enabled, potentially allowing XML External Entity (XXE) attacks.
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High 8.2
Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect 12.1.0.0 through 12.1.1.2 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to XML external entity (XXE) injection.
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High 7.5
Wowza Streaming Engine before 4.12.2 processes XML external entities, which allows remote attackers to read local files…
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High 8.1
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is affected by a denial of service vulnerability
IBM MQ 9.2.0.0 through 9.2.0.44 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.0.42 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.0.26 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.5.1 CD, and 10.0.0.0 through 10.0.0.5 LTS and CD Managed File Transfer could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information o…
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High 7.1
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is vulnerable to XML external entity injection
IBM MQ 9.2.0.0 through 9.2.0.44 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.0.42 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.0.26 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.5.1 CD, and 10.0.0.0 through 10.0.0.5 LTS and CD is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A re…
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High 7.1
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is vulnerable to XML external entity injection
IBM MQ 9.2.0.0 through 9.2.0.44 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.0.42 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.0.26 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.5.1 CD, and 10.0.0.0 through 10.0.0.5 LTS and CD is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A re…
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High 8.2
Quest Foglight for Databases getSource XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Quest Foglight for Databases getSource XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to initiate arbitrary server-side requests on affected installations of Quest Foglight for Databases. Authen…
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High 7.2
Quest Foglight for Databases AbstractParser XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Quest Foglight for Databases AbstractParser XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Quest Foglight for Databases. Authentica…
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High 8.2
Copernik XML Factory: Improper restriction of XInclude resource resolution in Copernik XML Factory (stock JDK provider)
Copernik XML Factory provides secure-by-default JAXP factory creation for Java. Prior to 0.1.2, Copernik XML Factory does not block XInclude resource resolution on the stock JDK provider after an application enables XInclude on a factory returned by `XmlFacto…
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High 8.2
XML External Entity injection in Szafir and Szafir Weryfikująca
Szafir and Szafir Weryfikująca are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection. When a user signs or verify a crafted XML file containing a `DOCTYPE` with an external DTD reference, the parser processes external entities, allowing an attacker to read ar…
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High 7.1
XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in Metadata Field Allows Arbitrary File Read
In openEQUELLA before 2026.1, the XML parser used for item metadata does not disable external entity resolution. A user permitted to create items (CREATE_ITEM) can submit crafted XML to POST /api/item and cause the server to read arbitrary files accessible to…
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High 7.5
XML External Entity Reference in Telerik Document Processing Libraries SVG Image Processing
In Progress® Telerik® Document Processing Libraries prior to version 2026.3.1027, an XML external entity reference vulnerability in SVG image processing allows an unauthenticated attacker to read local files on the server via a crafted SVG image with a nested…
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High 8.3
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Tactis' NoviGest Desktop App
XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in the SAFT import feature of the NoviGest Desktop App. The application processes user-controlled XML files using a JAXB Unmarshaller without properly disabling external entity resolution. An attacker with acc…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-90885 Public exploit
Apache Camel: Camel-Saxon XML External Entity Processing - XQueryBuilder Parsed a Message Body That Was Already a javax.xml.transform.Source With Saxon's Default Parser Settings, so an External Entity Declared in That Body Was Resolved
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in Apache Camel Saxon component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.2. XQueryBuilder in camel-saxon, which evaluates expressions for the xquery…
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High 8.7
Kitodo.Production: XXE in XMLUtils EAD/XML upload parsers (parseXMLString / getNumberOfEADElements / checkIfXmlIsWellFormed lack secure JAXP config)
Kitodo.Production is a workflow management tool for mass digitization and is part of the Kitodo Digital Library Suite. Prior to version 3.9.2, org.kitodo.production.helper.XMLUtils exposes several XML parsing helpers that construct a JAXP parser with the defa…
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High 8.8
PhpSpreadsheet: XmlScanner Bypass via Double-Encoded unentity() TOCTOU Allows XXE and Denial of Service
PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. From 3.3.0 until 3.10.8 and 5.10.0, Reader\Xml passes stored SpreadsheetML XML through XmlScanner::scan in Xml::canRead and Xml::trySimpleXMLLoadStringPrivate, while Xml::unentity…
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High 8.8
PhpSpreadsheet: XmlScanner Bypass via ISO-2022 Escape Sequences Allows XXE and Denial of Service
PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Prior to 1.30.7, 2.1.19, 2.4.8, 3.10.8, and 5.10.0, XmlScanner::scan in src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Security/XmlScanner.php uses a DOCTYPE detection pattern that accounts for NUL-by…
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High 7.5
Apache Abdera: XML external entity expansion in Atom document parsing
UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED Improper restriction of XML external entity references in Apache Abdera allows an attacker to access sensitive data or make server-side requests when an application parses attacker-controlled XML with Abdera. This issue affects Apach…
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High 8.2CVE-2026-88901 Public exploit
Apache Camel: Camel-Smooks XML External Entity Processing, external entities resolved by default
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in Apache Camel. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.7.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1. Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in the Smooks component (camel-smo…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-85250 Public exploit
Apache Camel: Camel-XPath XML External Entity Processing and File Disclosure via the documentType=InputSource Option
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in Apache Camel XPath component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1. With documentType set to InputSource, XPathBuilder handed the payload st…
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High 7.1
VOCALOID6 Editor provided by Yamaha Corporation improperly restricts XML external entity references. Loading a speciall…
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High 8.2
XML External Entity injection in Sparx Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Architect is vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) injection in the XSLT Debugger feature. When a user loads a crafted XML file containing a `DOCTYPE` with an external DTD reference, the parser processes external entities, allowing an attacker to…
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High 7.5
Ellucian WebAdvisor 3.2 Unauthenticated XXE Injection
Ellucian WebAdvisor 3.2 contains an unauthenticated XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to submit crafted XML POST requests to the /WebAdvisor/WebAdvisor endpoint without disabling external entity and DTD resolution.…
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High 8.6
ColdFusion | Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') (CWE-611)
ColdFusion is affected by an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to access sensitive files and directories outside the intended…
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High 7.6
OpenRemote: XXE in KNXProtocol.startAssetImport() allows arbitrary file read via unprotected XMLInputFactory
OpenRemote is an open-source internet-of-things platform. Prior to 1.24.2, the KNXProtocol.startAssetImport method in agent/src/main/java/org/openremote/agent/protocol/knx/KNXProtocol.java processes 0.xml from an authenticated user's uploaded ETS project ZIP …
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High 8.7
CVFS Information Disclosure
CVFS contained an XML external entity (XXE) reference handling issue affecting information dislcosure. Software customers upgrade to resolved maintenance release. Update CVFS.
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High 7.6
Security Vulnerability identified in IBM TRIRIGA - XXE
IBM TRIRIGA Application Platform 5.0.0 through 5.0.8 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) injection flaw.
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High 7.1
Improper XML external entity restriction in Progress MarkLogic Server
Progress MarkLogic Server 12.x releases before 12.1.0 and 11.x releases before 11.3.7 enable XML external entity processing by default in multiple server paths, which could allow crafted XML to cause server-side requests or disclosure of local files.
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High 7.5
Improper XML external entity restriction in Progress MarkLogic Server SAML processing
Affected Progress MarkLogic Server 11.x releases before 11.3.7 use a SAML parser configuration that can process external DTDs or entities, which could result in unintended network access or information disclosure.
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High 8.3
The JAXB factory methods historically relied solely on `FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING` to prevent XML External Entity (XXE)…
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High 8.2
IBM DataPower Gateway XXE
IBM DataPower Gateway 10.5.0.0 through 10.5.0.22, 10.6.1 through 10.6.6, 10.6.0.0 through 10.6.0.10, and 11.0.0.0 through 11.0.0.2 is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vu…
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High 8.5
Security Advisory 0190
An XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in the WiFi-server Spectralight application allows any authenticated user to send malicious requests, leading to arbitrary local file disclosure and partial denial of service.
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High 8.6CVE-2026-88789 Public exploit
Apache Camel Quarkus: Camel Quarkus: Forced Xalan TransformerFactory drops upstream external-DTD/stylesheet hardening
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in the XSLT support extension (camel-quarkus-support-xalan) in Apache Camel Quarkus from 3.2.0 before 3.33.3 and from 3.34.0 before 3.40.0 on all platforms allows an attacker who supplies the XML document …
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High 7.0
Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
An XML parser used by Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway did not restrict external entity references. Where an optional, non-default message-processing feature is enabled, a remote and unauthenticated sender could potentially use a crafted message to read fil…
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High 7.7
Apache Roller: XML external entity processing in trackback response parser
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache Roller 6.1.5 allows a user with entry-editing rights on a weblog to cause the server to parse an attacker-influenced trackback response with an XML parser that does not disable external entity re…
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High 7.7
Apache Roller: XML external entity processing in OPML bookmark import
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache Roller 6.1.5 allows a weblog administrator to read files readable by the Roller process and reach internal network addresses by importing a crafted OPML document, because the bookmark import pars…
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High 7.7
DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data has several vulnerabilities
IBM DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data 5.4.0.0 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) injection.
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High 7.4
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) injection flaw.
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High 7.4
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper restriction of XML external entity references.
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High 8.5
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) is Impacted by Multiple Vulnerabilities
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper restriction of XML external entity references.