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 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.
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High 7.5
MPXJ: XXE Vulnerability in MerlinReader
MPXJ is an open source library to read and write project plans from a variety of file formats and databases. From 5.5.5 until 16.4.1, MerlinReader creates a DocumentBuilder with default settings while parsing XML from the ZTIMEINTERVALS column of a Merlin pro…
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High 8.1
IBM MQ Java messaging is vulnerable to XML external entity injection
IBM MQ 9.1.0.0 through 9.1.0.37 LTS, 9.2.0.0 through 9.2.0.43 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.0.41 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.5.1 CD, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.0.25 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.5.1 CD, and 10.0.0.0 Classes for Java could allow an authenticated attacker to obtai…
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High 7.1
IBM MQ .NET client is vulnerable to XML external entity injection
IBM MQ 9.1.0.0 through 9.1.0.37 LTS, 9.2.0.0 through 9.2.0.43 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.0.41 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.5.1 CD, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.0.25 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.5.1 CD, and 10.0.0.0 could allow an authenticated attacker to read files from a vuln…
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High 7.1
Multiple security vulnerabilities addressed with IBM Business Automation Workflow August 2026
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resource.
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High 7.1
Multiple secuirty vulnerabilies addressed with IBM Business Automation Workflow August 2026
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.
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High 7.1
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is vulnerable to XML external entity injection
IBM MQ 9.1.0.0 through 9.1.0.37 LTS, 9.2.0.0 through 9.2.0.43 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.0.41 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.5.1 CD, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.0.25 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.5.1 CD, and 10.0.0.0 Managed File Transfer could allow an authenticated attacker to …
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High 7.1
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is vulnerable to XML external entity injection
IBM MQ is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.
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High 7.1
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is vulnerable to XML external entity injection
IBM MQ 9.1.0.0 through 9.1.0.37 LTS, 9.2.0.0 through 9.2.0.43 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.0.41 LTS, 9.3.0.0 through 9.3.5.1 CD, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.0.25 LTS, 9.4.0.0 through 9.4.5.1 CD, and 10.0.0.0 is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack …
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High 7.1
Multiple secuirty vulnerabilies addressed with IBM Business Automation Workflow August 2026
IBM Business Automation Workflow containers and traditional may use programming model artifacts that are vulnerable to XML Entity Injection attacks by default.
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High 7.7
DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data has several vulnerabilities due to open source software
IBM DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data 5.4.0.0 IBM DataStage PxXMLInput operator could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) injection.
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High 7.5
MoguBlog through 6.2 XML External Entity Injection in the Unauthenticated WeChat Callback Endpoint
MoguBlog through 6.2 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in the WeChat callback handler at POST /wechat/wechatCheck. The WechatRestApi.index() method passes the raw request body to SignUtil.xmlToMap(), which uses an unhardened dom4j SAXRea…
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High 7.5
NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
When XML batch processing is turned on and the XPath option is selected, the raw batch input goes through a default XPath/JAXP setup with no entity restrictions, so XXE injection can allow data exfiltration and denial-of-service attacks.
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High 8.2
NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
The XSLT Transformer Step builds a bare TransformerFactory without the proper security options set, so XXE injection can allow data exfiltration and denial-of-service attacks.
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High 8.6
XML External Entity in Akana API Platform
A flaw resulting in XML external entity (XXE) was found in Akana API Platform in which references were improperly restricted during XML-to-JSON processing. The issue affects Akana versions 2026.1, 2025.1.1, and all versions before 2024.1.6 (including older un…
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High 7.4
XXE Vulnerability in Cosminexus Component Container
Improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability in Cosminexus Component Container. This issue affects Cosminexus Component Container: from 11-70-01 before 11-70-03, from 11-60 before 11-60-03, from 11-50 through 11-50-03, from 11-40 throug…
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High 8.5
XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in SAP Integration Suite
SAP Integration Suite does not sufficiently validate XML documents accepted from untrusted sources in certain internal components. An attacker with low privileges could submit specially crafted XML payloads containing malicious external entity declarations. S…
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High 7.5
An XXE (XML External Entity) vulnerability in the level-rule module of Distribution Management v1.0.0 allows attackers …
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High 7.7
IBM App Connect Enterprise and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS Adapter nodes are vulnerable to multiple CVEs
IBM App Connect Enterprise 13.0.1.0 through 13.0.8.1, and 12.0.1.0 through 12.0.12.28 and IBM Integration Bus for z/OS 10.1.0.0 through 10.1.0.7 SAP Adapter is vulnerable to an XML external entity (XXE) attack.
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High 7.5
Resteasy-core: resteasy sourceprovider remote unauthenticated file read
A flaw was found in RESTEasy's SourceProvider. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to perform an unauthenticated remote file read. By sending a specially crafted XML body with a DOCTYPE declaration referencing external entities to an endpoin…
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High 7.5
YaCy Search Server through 1.941 XML External Entity Injection via Parsers
YaCy Search Server through 1.941 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in SVG, FreeMind, and OpenSearch parsers that fail to disable external entity resolution. Attackers can publish malicious documents with DOCTYPE declarations containing S…
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High 8.6
mapfish-print: XXE on MapFish Print allows reading arbitrary files of certain types
mapfish-print is a component of MapFish for printing templated cartographic maps. Prior to 3.28.30, 3.30.32, 3.31.24, 3.33.16, and 4.0.5, MapFish Print accepts an attacker-controlled GML layer url in requests to the /api/print3/print endpoint and fetches XML …
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High 7.5CVE-2026-20320 Exploited
A vulnerability in the Open Client Interface (OCI) XML Parser of Cisco BroadWorks could allow an unauthenticated, remot…
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High 7.7
Datavane TIS v5.0.0 XXE Injection via doEditWorkflow Endpoint
Datavane TIS v5.0.0 contains an XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to perform server-side request forgery and out-of-band file exfiltration by supplying a crafted taskScript payload to the doEditWorkflow endp…
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High 8.7
In Eclipse RDF4J, several XML parser entry points do not fully restrict XML External Entity (XXE) processing when parsi…
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High 7.5
Apache CXF: XXE via WSDL/XSD import parsing
Apache CXF reads a top-level WSDL through its hardened StaxUtils path, which disables XML DTDs and external entities. However, any <wsdl:import> or <xsd:import> referenced from that top-level WSDL is handed off to WSDL4J, which does not disable DOCTYPE declar…
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High 7.1
Jenkins Ivy Report Plugin 1.2 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attack…
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High 8.2
IBM QRadar SIEM has an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability
IBM QRadar 7.6.0.0 through 7.6.0.1, and 7.5.0 through 7.5.0 UP 15 Interim Fix 005 has an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability. The vulnerability resides in the parseXmlPayload() function within the event processing pipeline ( q1labs_core.jar ). W…
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High 7.5
CentreStack < 17.4 XXE via SharePoint Storage Configuration
CentreStack before 17.4 contains an XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to exfiltrate arbitrary files by supplying a malicious URL to the SharePoint storage configuration handler. Attackers can send a crafte…
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High 8.7
veraPDF Validation XXE via Rich Text
veraPDF validation model is an implementation of the veraPDF validation model. From 1.25.73 until 1.30.2 and 1.31.71, veraPDF-validation contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in validation-model/src/main/java/org/verapdf/gf/model/tools/Dictionar…
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High 8.7
veraPDF Validation XXE via XFA
veraPDF validation provides PDF/A and PDF/UA validation, feature reporting, and metadata repair. From 1.17.35 until 1.30.2 and 1.31.71, veraPDF-validation contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in validation-model/src/main/java/org/verapdf/gf/mod…
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High 7.5
Jinher OA C6 contains an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in the /c6/JHSoft.Web.HrmAttendance/sp_manag…
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High 8.3
Netty: XML External Entity (XXE) injection via unconfigured XML factory when DTD and entity processing are enabled
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In versions 4.2.0.Final through 4.2.15.Final and 4.1.0.Final through 4.1.135.Final, any caller that can deliver bytes to a Netty channel pipeline containing `XmlDecoder`…
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High 7.5
XXE in Netcad's NetGIS
Improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability in Netcad Software Inc. NetGIS allows Serialized Data External Linking. This issue affects NetGIS: from 5.0.66 before 7.2.2.
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High 8.7CVE-2026-45071 Public exploit
Symfony: XXE (Local File Disclosure) in DomCrawler::addXmlContent() via validateOnParse = true
Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Prior to 5.4.52, 6.4.40, 7.4.12, and 8.0.12, Crawler::addXmlContent() set DOMDocument::$validateOnParse = true before loadXML(), re-enabling external entity reso…
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High 8.7
HAPI FHIR: XXE in XsltUtilities.saxonTransform via unhardened Saxon TransformerFactory
HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.10, org.hl7.fhir.utilities.XsltUtilities saxonTransform(...) overloads instantiated a bare net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl() without ACCE…
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High 7.6
XXE attack in IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions
IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions 9.0.0 through 9.4.2 is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory res…
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High 8.5
Apicurio/apicurio-registry: apicurio-registry: unhardened saxparser in content-type detection leads to blind xxe / ssrf / billion-laughs dos
A flaw was found in Apicurio Registry. The ContentTypeUtil.isParsableXml() method creates a SAXParserFactory without enabling secure processing features or disabling external entity resolution. An attacker with artifact-write permission (or unauthenticated wh…
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High 7.5
Docling: Unsafe XML Entity Expansion in USPTO Patent Backend
Docling simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats and providing integrations with the generative AI ecosystem. From 2.13.0 until 2.74.0, the USPTO patent XML parser used the standard xml.sax.parseString() without protection against XML Externa…
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High 7.0
libxml2: Use after free in xmlParseInternalSubset via improper entity resolution handling
Use After Free in libxml2's xmlParseInternalSubset from GNOME libxml2 version 2.9.11 to 2.11.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service via maliciously crafted XML input with improper entity resolution handling.