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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Medium 6.1
Microsoft PowerShell Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Improper restriction of xml external entity reference in Microsoft PowerShell allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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Medium 6.5
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Improper restriction of xml external entity reference in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises) allows an authorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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Medium 5.0
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 flaw.
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Medium 4.3
In JetBrains PhpStorm before 2026.3 xXE was possible in untrusted projects via PHPMD ruleset autodetection
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Medium 6.5
MailEnable parseObjectResponse XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability
MailEnable parseObjectResponse XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of MailEnable. Authentication is required to exploit thi…
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Medium 6.1
XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in SOAP Interface Allows External Entity Expansion
In openEQUELLA before 2026.1, the SOAP API parses XML supplied in the stopEdit operation with a parser that resolves external entities. This allows an attacker to read arbitrary files accessible to the openEQUELLA service or cause the server to issue requests…
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Medium 6.8
jdmpview / DTFJ reads arbitrary local files and makes arbitrary outbound requests when opening a third-party diagnostic dump bundle (XXE in XMLIndexReader)
In Eclipse OpenJ9 versions up to 0.63, opening a supplied diagnostic dump bundle with the jdmpview tool, or equivalent DTFJ code, may cause the analyst's machine to read an arbitrary local file named inside the bundle and send its contents to an arbitrary rem…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-91858 Public exploit
Apache Camel: Camel-FOP Resolves External DTDs and Entities From Untrusted XSL-FO Input When a Third-Party JAXP TransformerFactory Is Present
FopProducer transforms the incoming XSL-FO message body by creating a javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory through TransformerFactory.newInstance() and enabling only FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING before running an identity transform over the body. On the JDK's …
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Medium 4.4
Newell Brands DYMO ID document parsing failing file type extension authentication check
Newell Brands DYMO ID 1.5.1.71 parses job files using XmlDocument.Load() without disabling DTD processing. The PC Job Files view automatically parses every recognized job file extension on folder browse. A crafted file on any browsed network share can perform…
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Medium 6.5
FTM 4.x ALL could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity i…
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Medium 6.5
getID3 through 1.9.26 XML External Entity Injection via XML2array
getID3 through 1.9.26 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in the XML2array helper function that fails to properly disable entity loading on PHP before 8.0. Attackers can craft malicious XML metadata in media files to disclose local files, …
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Medium 4.9
Cisco ISE XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the offline profiler feed service of Cisco ISE could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files that are stored on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to the parsing of attacker-controlled feed metadata with a…
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Medium 4.9
Cisco Identity Services Engine External Entity Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability in an API of Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read specific files on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper restriction of XML external enti…
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Medium 6.5
Flowable flowable-engine through 8.0.0 XXE via ProcessDiagramLayoutFactory
Flowable flowable-engine through 8.0.0 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in ProcessDiagramLayoutFactory.parseXml() that fails to disable external entity resolution when parsing deployed BPMN resources. Attackers with process deployment p…
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Medium 6.8
IBM MQ Managed File Transfer REST API 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 with MFT publish authorit…
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Medium 5.9
svg_optimizer rubygem external XML entity (XXE) vulnerability
The svg_optimizer gem before 0.3.0 for Ruby performs entity expansion on untrusted documents.
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Medium 5.9
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity References in AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper RemoteQueryCachePlugin
Improper restriction of XML external entity references in the RemoteQueryCachePlugin in AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper 3.3.0 through 4.2.0 might allow an actor with write access to the shared cache infrastructure to disclose sensitive files from application hosts …
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Medium 6.9
Omada Controller XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in SAML IdP Metadata Parsing Leading to Arbitrary Local File Read
An information disclosure vulnerability in the SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality of Omada Controller allows an authenticated user with SAML configuration privileges to access sensitive information due to insufficient validation of user-supplied SAML met…
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Medium 5.9
OpenNMS XML collector XXE allows arbitrary file read from the OpenNMS host
An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the XML collector of multiple versions of OpenNMS Meridian and Horizon. When OpenNMS collects XML from a source whose response is attacker-controlled (for example a compromised monitored host or an HTTP man…
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Medium 5.3
XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in CyberELF NanoXML
The API is prone to XML external entity (XXE) injection. By default, XML external entity support is enabled. This issue affects NanoXML: 2.2.3.
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Medium 5.3
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 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) in…
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Medium 5.3
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 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to an XML external entity (XXE) in…
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Medium 5.5
Exterro FTK Imager < 8.3 XXE via Report.xml XSLT Processing
Exterro FTK Imager before 8.3 contains an XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that allows attackers to read arbitrary files from the host filesystem by embedding malicious external entity references and attacker-controlled XSLT stylesheets withi…
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Medium 5.5
XG VisionTerminal, XG-X VisionTerminal, LJ Series Terminal-Software and WI Series Terminal-Software provided by Keyence…
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Medium 4.7
pkp pkp-lib XSLTransformer.php _transformPHP xml external entity reference
A vulnerability was detected in pkp pkp-lib up to 3.3.0-22/3.4.0-10/3.5.0-4. The affected element is the function _transformPHP of the file classes/xslt/XSLTransformer.php. The manipulation results in xml external entity reference. The attack can be executed …
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Medium 6.5
Dell Command Update (DCU), versions prior to 5.7.1, contain an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vu…
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Medium 6.5
Dell OpenManage Enterprise, versions prior to 4.7.0, contains an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference …
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Medium 5.5
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2.1 xXE was possible in the Eclipse settings importers
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Medium 5.5
In JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA before 2026.2.1 hadoop ResourceManager could read local files via XXE
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Medium 6.5
IBM i is Affected By Multiple Vulnerabilities in WebSphere Application Server Liberty
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper processing of XML external entities.
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Medium 6.3
XXE in Ministry of Justice's UYAP Document Editor
Improper restriction of XML external entity reference vulnerability in Ministry of Justice UYAP Document Editor allows Serialized Data External Linking. This issue affects UYAP Document Editor: from 4.5.17 before 5.4.17.
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Medium 6.1
FreeCAD: XXE file read and SSRF via external entity injection in Document.xml SAX parser
FreeCAD is a free and open-source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. Prior to 1.1.2, the Xerces SAX2 XMLReader constructed in src/Base/Reader.cpp by Base::XMLReader::XMLReader() parses attacker-controlled Document.xml from a crafted .FCStd archive without d…
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Medium 6.5
XML External Entity Injection in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Web Intelligence) allows a low-privileged attacker to upload a specially crafted spreadsheet file containing malicious external references. When the file is processed as a data source, the affected component…
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Medium 4.6
In Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) versions up to 1.6.0 (including source code versions up to v20260630 an…
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Medium 5.5
IBM DataPower Gateway affected by XML external entity injection
IBM DataPower Gateway is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. A privileged user could exploit this vulnerability to expose sensitive information or consume memory resources.
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Medium 6.5
veraPDF-validatio: Use of Default `DocumentBuilderFactory` leads to XXE When Processing Untrusted PDFs
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 vulnerability in PDFAValidator.validate(...) and GFPDAcroForm.getdynamicRender(), where de…
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Medium 4.8
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in proCertum SmartSign
proCertum SmartSign parses external XML entities from arbitrary crafted signature files, enabling SSRF and potentially allowing the reading of local files, depending on the parser's configuration. The XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability is triggered simpl…
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Medium 5.3
Dell Unisphere for PowerMax, version(s) 10.3.0.5 and prior contain(s) an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Re…
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Medium 6.5
Foxit PDF Editor/Reader XDP XFA XXE arbitrary local file read
The input file does not need to be strictly in a structurally valid PDF format. Instead, after reviewing the content, the original document disguised as a PDF will be sent to the parser. Malicious documents will construct malicious external entities that, thr…
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Medium 4.0
Apache Lucene.Net: XXE vulnerability in Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common PatternParser
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in Apache Lucene.Net (Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common library). This issue affects Apache Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common: from 4.8.0-beta00005 before 4.8.0-beta00018. Users are recommended to upgrade …