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
940 results · Feed
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Medium 5.5
IBM WebSphere Application Server XML external entity injection
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 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
WordPress Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin <= 1.3.980 - XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in WP Royal Royal Elementor Addons royal-elementor-addons allows XML Injection.This issue affects Royal Elementor Addons: from n/a through <= 1.3.980.
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Medium 5.1
Insecure usage for DocumentBuilderFactory and TransformerFactory in OpenText Application Automation Tools
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in OpenText Application Automation Tools allows DTD Injection.This issue affects OpenText Application Automation Tools: 24.1.0 and below.
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Medium 5.9
Multiple XXE sinks in Run LoadRunner script step in OpenText Application Automation Tools
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in OpenText Application Automation Tools allows DTD Injection.This issue affects OpenText Application Automation Tools: 24.1.0 and below.
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Medium 5.9
Multiple XXE sinks in ALM archive post-build step in OpenText Application Automation Tools
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in OpenText Application Automation Tools allows DTD Injection.This issue affects OpenText Application Automation Tools: 24.1.0 and below.
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Medium 5.5
IBM WebSphere Application Server XML external entity injection
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 and 9.0 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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High 8.8
Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: XMLPublisher). Supporte…
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Medium 6.3
XML Eternal Entity Attack in the Software Library taxstatement.jar
When the XML is read from the codes in the PDF and parsed using a DocumentBuilder, the default settings of the DocumentBuilder allow for an XXE (XML External Entity) attack. Further information on this can be found on the website of the Open Worldwide Applica…
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High 7.5
Apache XML Graphics FOP: XML External Entity (XXE) Processing
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability in Apache XML Graphics FOP. This issue affects Apache XML Graphics FOP: 2.9. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.10, which fixes the issue.
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Low 2.9
Dell AppSync Server, version 4.3 through 4.6, contains an XML External Entity Injection vulnerability. An adjacent high…
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High 7.5CVE-2024-45293 Scanner template
XML External Entity Reference (XXE) in PHPSpreadsheet's XLSX reader
PHPSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. The security scanner responsible for preventing XXE attacks in the XLSX reader can be bypassed by slightly modifying the XML structure, utilizing white-spaces. On servers that all…
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Medium 5.0
TopQuadrant TopBraid EDG JavaScript console XXE
TopQuadrant TopBraid EDG before version 8.0.1 allows an authenticated attacker to upload an XML DTD file and execute JavaScript to read local files or access URLs (XXE). Fixed in 8.0.1 (bug fix: TBS-6721).
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High 7.5
DataEase has an XXE vulnerability
DataEase is an open source data visualization analysis tool. Prior to version 2.10.1, there is an XML external entity injection vulnerability in the static resource upload interface of DataEase. An attacker can construct a payload to implement intranet detect…
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High 8.6
XML External Entity Reference (XXE) vulnerability can lead to a Server Side Request Forgery attack in gematik app-referencevalidator
The reference validator is a tool to perform advanced validation of FHIR resources for TI applications and interoperability standards. The profile location routine in the referencevalidator commons package is vulnerable to `XML External Entities` attack due t…
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Medium 6.5
Kimai has an XXE Leading to Local File Read
### Summary Kimai uses [PHPSpreadsheet](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet) for importing and exporting invoices. Recently, a [CVE](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/security/advisories/GHSA-ghg6-32f9-2jp7) was identified in PHPSpreadsheet,…
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Critical 9.2
XML Injection in SFS Consulting's ww.Winsure
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in SFS Consulting ww.Winsure allows XML Injection. This issue affects ww.Winsure: before 4.6.2.
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High 8.2CVE-2024-37397 EPSS 59%
An External XML Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the provisioning web service of Ivanti EPM before 2022 SU6, or the 2024 S…
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High 8.8
Loftware Spectrum before 4.6 HF14 allows authenticated XXE attacks.
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High 8.6
`org.hl7.fhir.core` XXE vulnerability in XSLT transforms
The HL7 FHIR Core Artifacts repository provides the java core object handling code, with utilities (including validator), for the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) specification. Prior to version 6.3.23, XSLT transforms performed by various co…
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High 8.8
XML External Entity Reference (XXE) in PHPSpreadsheet
PHPSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Affected versions are subject to a bypassing of a filter which allows for an XXE-attack. This in turn allows attacker to obtain contents of local files, even if error reporting is…
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High 8.8
XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Terminalfour 8.0.0001 through 8.3.18 and XML JDBC versions up to 1.0.4 allow…
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High 8.2
XXE in SmartDeviceServer in Ivanti Avalanche 6.3.1 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files on …
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High 7.5
Journyx Unauthenticated XML External Entities Injection
The "soap_cgi.pyc" API handler allows the XML body of SOAP requests to contain references to external entities. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to read local files, perform server-side request forgery, and overwhelm the web server resources.
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Medium 6.3
XML External Entity in Akana
In versions of Akana API Platform prior to 2024.1.0 a flaw resulting in XML External Entity (XXE) was discovered.
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Critical 9.8
Apache Drill: XXE Vulnerability in XML Format Reader
XXE in the XML Format Plugin in Apache Drill version 1.19.0 and greater allows a user to read any file on a remote file system or execute commands via a malicious XML file. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.21.2, which fixes this issue.
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Medium 4.3
Laravel v11.x was discovered to contain an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability.
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Medium 5.9
XXE in Guardrails AI when consuming RAIL documents
RAIL documents are an XML-based format invented by Guardrails AI to enforce formatting checks on LLM outputs. Guardrails users that consume RAIL documents from external sources are vulnerable to XXE, which may cause leakage of internal file data via the SYSTE…
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Medium 6.5
XML External Entity Injection in PruvaSoft Informatics' Apinizer Management Console
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in PruvaSoft Informatics Apinizer Management Console allows Data Serialization External Entities Blowup. This issue affects Apinizer Management Console: before 2024.05.1.
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High 7.1
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS XML external entity injection
IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Web Access 9.7.2.8 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 reso…
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High 7.5
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-core-java
The CycloneDX core module provides a model representation of the SBOM along with utilities to assist in creating, validating, and parsing SBOMs. Before deserializing CycloneDX Bill of Materials in XML format, _cyclonedx-core-java_ leverages XPath expressions …
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High 7.5
ClassGraph XML External Entity Reference
ClassGraph before 4.8.112 was not resistant to XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks.
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High 7.2
XML External Entity Injection in Kiuwan SAST
When the Kiuwan Local Analyzer uploads the scan results to the Kiuwan SAST web application (either on-premises or cloud/SaaS solution), the transmitted data consists of a ZIP archive containing several files, some of them in the XML file format. During Kiuwan…
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Critical 9.8
XXE can expose crypt key and other secrets granting full admin access
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7, 2.4.6-p5, 2.4.5-p7, 2.4.4-p8 and earlier are affected by an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability …
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Critical 9.8
Zend-JSON vulnerable to XXE/XEE attacks
Numerous components utilizing PHP's DOMDocument, SimpleXML, and xml_parse functionality are vulnerable to two types of attacks: - XML eXternal Entity (XXE) Injection attacks. The above mentioned extensions are insecure by default, allowing external entities t…
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High 8.6
Zendframework Local file disclosure via XXE injection in Zend_XmlRpc
Zend_XmlRpc is vulnerable to XML eXternal Entity (XXE) Injection attacks. The SimpleXMLElement class (SimpleXML PHP extension) is used in an insecure way to parse XML data. External entities can be specified by adding a specific DOCTYPE element to XML-RPC req…
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Critical 9.8
ZendFramework potential XML eXternal Entity injection vectors
Numerous components utilizing PHP's `DOMDocument`, `SimpleXML`, and `xml_parse` functionality are vulnerable to two types of attacks: - XML eXternal Entity (XXE) Injection attacks. The above mentioned extensions are insecure by default, allowing external enti…
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High 7.5
ZendFramework potential XML eXternal Entity injection vectors
`Zend_Feed_Rss` and `Zend_Feed_Atom` were found to contain potential XML eXternal Entity (XXE) vectors due to insecure usage of PHP's DOM extension. External entities could be specified by adding a specific DOCTYPE element to feeds; exploiting this vulnerabil…
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Critical 9.8
ZendFramework vulnerable to XXE/XEE attacks
Numerous components utilizing PHP's DOMDocument, SimpleXML, and xml_parse functionality are vulnerable to two types of attacks: - XML eXternal Entity (XXE) Injection attacks. The above mentioned extensions are insecure by default, allowing external entities t…
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Critical 9.8
Zendframework vulnerable to XXE/XEE attacks
Numerous components utilizing PHP's DOMDocument, SimpleXML, and xml_parse functionality are vulnerable to two types of attacks: - XML eXternal Entity (XXE) Injection attacks. The above mentioned extensions are insecure by default, allowing external entities t…
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High 7.5
ebookmeta XML External Entity vulnerability
An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the ebookmeta.get_metadata function of ebookmeta before v1.2.8 allows attackers to access sensitive information or cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via crafted XML input.