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CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

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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)
  1. 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 4.3
    CVE-2021-21672 EPSS 43%

    XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Selenium HTML report Plugin

    Jenkins Selenium HTML report Plugin 1.0 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

  • Medium 4.8

    SilverStripe XXE Vulnerability in CSSContentParser

    SilverStripe through 4.6.0-rc1 has an XXE Vulnerability in CSSContentParser. A developer utility meant for parsing HTML within unit tests can be vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks. When this developer utility is misused for purposes involving ext…

  • Medium 5.4

    Cisco BroadWorks Messaging Server XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco BroadWorks Messaging Server Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information or cause a partial denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected system. This …

  • Medium 5.4

    Cisco Firepower Device Manager On-Box Software XML External Entity Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Firepower Device Manager (FDM) On-Box Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read and write access to information that is stored on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to the improper …

  • Medium 6.1

    XML External Entity processing

    Micro Focus Solutions Business Manager versions prior to 11.7.1 are vulnerable to XML External Entity Processing (XXE) on certain operations.

  • Medium 6.4

    XXE vulnerability in OpenHAB

    openHAB is a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home. In openHAB before versions 2.5.12 and 3.0.1 the XML external entity (XXE) attack allows attackers in the same network as the openHAB instance to retrieve internal infor…

  • Medium 6.5

    Avaya WebLM Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

    An XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Avaya WebLM admin interface allows authenticated users to read arbitrary files or conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks via a crafted DTD in an XML request. Affected versions of Avaya WebLM include: 7…

  • Medium 6.5

    XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Visualworks Store Plugin

    Jenkins Visualworks Store Plugin 1.1.3 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

  • Medium 6.5

    XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Mercurial Plugin

    Jenkins Mercurial Plugin 2.11 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

  • Medium 6.5

    XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Subversion Plugin

    Jenkins Subversion Plugin 2.13.1 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

  • Medium 5.6

    Authenticated XML External Entity Processing

    ### Impact Authenticated XML External Entity Processing ### Patches We recommend to update to the current version 6.3.2.1. You can get the update to 6.3.2.1 regularly via the Auto-Updater or directly via the download overview. https://www.shopware.com/en/down…

  • Medium 6.5

    XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Nerrvana Plugin

    Jenkins Nerrvana Plugin 1.02.06 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

  • Medium 5.5

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache NiFi

    In Apache NiFi 1.0.0 to 1.11.4, the notification service manager and various policy authorizer and user group provider objects allowed trusted administrators to inadvertently configure a potentially malicious XML file. The XML file has the ability to make ext…

  • Medium 6.5

    Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software XML External Entity Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read and write access to information that is stored on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of XML External Entit…

  • Medium 4.9

    Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment XML External Expansion Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment (HCM-F) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to information that is stored on an affected system. To exploit this v…

  • Medium 5.7

    An XML External Entity (XXE) processing vulnerability was reported in Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) versions pri…

  • Medium 5.3

    XML external entity (XXE) processing ('external-parameter-entities' feature was not fully disabled))

    All versions of com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle before 8.29 are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) Injection due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-9658.

  • Medium 4.9

    Cisco Data Center Network Manager XML External Entity Read Access Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the SOAP API of Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to information that is stored on an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need administra…

  • Medium 6.5

    RSA Authentication Manager versions prior to 8.4 P7 contain an XML Entity Injection Vulnerability. A remote authenticat…

  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2019-17554 Public exploit EPSS 12%

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache Olingo

    The XML content type entity deserializer in Apache Olingo versions 4.0.0 to 4.6.0 is not configured to deny the resolution of external entities. Request with content type "application/xml", which trigger the deserialization of entities, can be used to trigger…

  • Medium 6.5

    Apache NiFi information disclosure by XXE

    The XMLFileLookupService in NiFi versions 1.3.0 to 1.9.2 allowed trusted users to inadvertently configure a potentially malicious XML file. The XML file has the ability to make external calls to services (via XXE) and reveal information such as the versions o…

  • Medium 5.9
    CVE-2019-10172 Public exploit EPSS 17%

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in jackson-mapper-asl

    A flaw was found in org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:1.9.x libraries. XML external entity vulnerabilities similar CVE-2016-3720 also affects codehaus jackson-mapper-asl libraries but in different classes.

  • Medium 6.5

    HornetQ REST vulnerable to Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

    HornetQ REST is vulnerable to XML External Entity due to insecure configuration of RestEasy

  • Medium 4.9

    Information disclosure through processing of external XML entities

    An XML entity injection vulnerability exists in Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.10, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.3 or 2.3.2-p1. An authenticated admin user can craft document type definition for an XML representing XML layout. The crafted document type definition and XM…

  • Medium 5.5

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache POI

    In Apache POI up to 4.1.0, when using the tool XSSFExportToXml to convert user-provided Microsoft Excel documents, a specially crafted document can allow an attacker to read files from the local filesystem or from internal network resources via XML External E…

  • Medium 6.1

    Cisco Unified Communications Manager XML External Expansion Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the web-based interface of Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (SME) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information or cause a denial of s…

  • Medium 6.5

    Cisco Security Manager XML Entity Expansion Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in Cisco Security Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information or cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper restrictions on XML entities. An attacker could exploi…

  • Medium 6.1

    Jenkins Self-Organizing Swarm Plug-in Modules Plugin XXE vulnerability via UDP broadcast response

    Jenkins Self-Organizing Swarm Plug-in Modules Plugin clients that use UDP broadcasts to discover Jenkins masters do not prevent XML External Entity processing when processing the responses, allowing unauthorized attackers on the same network to read arbitrary…

  • Medium 5.3

    Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.puppycrawl.tools:checkstyle

    Checkstyle before 8.18 loads external DTDs by default.

  • Medium 4.9
    CVE-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…

  • Medium 5.9

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Elasticsearch

    Elasticsearch Security versions 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 contain an XXE flaw in Machine Learning's find_file_structure API. If a policy allowing external network access has been added to Elasticsearch's Java Security Manager then an attacker could send a specially cra…

  • Medium 6.3

    Cisco Energy Management Suite XML External Entity Vulnerability

    A vulnerability in the web-based user interface of Cisco Energy Management Suite Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read and write access to information that is stored on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper han…

  • Medium —

    Moderate severity vulnerability that affects io.vertx:vertx-core

    In version from 3.5.Beta1 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the OpenAPI XML type validator creates XML parsers without taking appropriate defense against XML attacks. This mechanism is exclusively when the developer uses the Eclipse Vert.x OpenAPI XML type validato…

  • Medium 6.5

    External Entity processing in the RegistrationSharing module

    A External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability in SUSE Linux SMT allows remote attackers to read data from the server or cause DoS by referencing blocking elements. Affected releases are SUSE Linux SMT: versions prior to 3.0.37.

  • Medium 6.5

    XML External Entity Reference in jbpmmigration

    It was discovered that the XmlUtils class in jbpmmigration 6.5 performed expansion of external parameter entities while parsing XML files. A remote attacker could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server and, potential…

  • Medium 5.5

    XML external entity expansion in org.apache.solr:solr-core

    This vulnerability in Apache Solr 6.0.0 to 6.6.4 and 7.0.0 to 7.3.1 relates to an XML external entity expansion (XXE) in Solr config files (currency.xml, enumsConfig.xml referred from schema.xml, TIKA parsecontext config file). In addition, Xinclude functiona…

  • Medium 6.5

    XML External Entity processing vulnerability in Jenkins Black Duck Hub Plugin

    A XML external entity processing vulnerability exists in Jenkins Black Duck Hub Plugin 3.1.0 and older in PostBuildScanDescriptor.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to make Jenkins process XML eternal entities in an XML document.

  • Medium 5.5

    There is a XML external entity expansion (XXE) vulnerability in Apache Solr config files

    This vulnerability in Apache Solr 6.0.0 to 6.6.3, 7.0.0 to 7.3.0 relates to an XML external entity expansion (XXE) in Solr config files (solrconfig.xml, schema.xml, managed-schema). In addition, Xinclude functionality provided in these config files is also af…

  • Medium 6.5

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Apache uimaj

    In Apache uimaj prior to 2.10.2, Apache uimaj 3.0.0-xxx prior to 3.0.0-beta, Apache uima-as prior to 2.10.2, Apache uimaFIT prior to 2.4.0, Apache uimaDUCC prior to 2.2.2, this vulnerability relates to an XML external entity expansion (XXE) capability of vari…

  • Medium 5.5

    Umbraco CMS XXE Vulnerability

    XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Umbraco CMS before 7.7.3 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading files on the server or sending TCP requests to intranet hosts (aka SSRF), related to Umbraco.Web/umbraco.presentation/umbraco/dialo…