Weakness (CWE)

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Base Draft

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)

Implementation, System Configuration

Many XML parsers and validators can be configured to disable external entity expansion.

Source: MITRE CWE-611

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Low 2.3

CVE-2024-52800 Public exploit

Potential XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability in veraPDF CLI

veraPDF is an open source PDF/A validation library. Executing policy checks using custom schematron files via the CLI invokes an XSL transformation that may theoretically lead to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. This doesn't affect the standard va…

veraPDF veraPDF-library org.verapdf:verapdf-library-jakarta org.verapdf:library Maven

Nov 29, 2024
Low 3.1

CVE-2018-0878 Public exploit EPSS 21%

Windows Remote Assistance in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windo…

Microsoft Windows Remote Assistance Windows

Mar 14, 2018

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

Potential XXE (XML External Entity Injection) vulnerability in veraPDF CLI

Windows Remote Assistance in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windo…