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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)
  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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  • Unscored —

    SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (Crystal Reports) - versions 420, 430, allows an unauthenticated att…

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    XML External Entity Reference in org.opencms:opencms-core

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  • Unscored —

    Billion Laughs

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  • Medium 6.4

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  • High 7.5

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE) in Nokogiri on JRuby

    Nokogiri is a Rubygem providing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parsers with XPath and CSS selector support. In Nokogiri v1.12.4 and earlier, on JRuby only, the SAX parser resolves external entities by default. Users of Nokogiri on JRuby who parse untrusted docume…

  • High —

    XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability

    A vulnerability in XML processing in Apache Jena, in versions up to 4.1.0, may allow an attacker to execute XML External Entities (XXE), including exposing the contents of local files to a remote server.

  • Unscored —

    A vulnerability has been identified in Teamcenter V12.4 (All versions < V12.4.0.8), Teamcenter V13.0 (All versions < V1…

  • Critical 9.1

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  • Medium 6.5

    PAN-OS: XML External Entity (XXE) Reference Vulnerability in the PAN-OS Web Interface

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  • Unscored —

    In Eclipse Theia 0.1.1 to 0.2.0, it is possible to exploit the default build to obtain remote code execution (and XXE) …

  • High 7.1

    XXE vulnerability in Jenkins Nested View Plugin

    Jenkins Nested View Plugin 1.20 and earlier does not configure its XML transformer to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

  • High 7.5

    XML External Entity Injection in PyWPS

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  • Critical 9.8

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Quokka

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  • Critical 9.8

    Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Quokka

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  • High 7.5

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  • Unscored —

    A vulnerability has been identified in Solid Edge SE2021 (All Versions < SE2021MP7). An XML external entity injection v…

  • Medium 6.3

    XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

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  • Medium 5.4

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  • High 8.2

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  • Medium 5.3

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  • Unscored —

    It was discovered that the XML::Atom Perl module before version 0.39 did not disable external entities when parsing XML…

  • Unscored —

    Panasonic FPWIN Pro, all Versions 7.5.1.1 and prior, allows an attacker to craft a project file specifying a URI that c…

  • Medium 4.3
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  • High 7.5

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  • High 7.5

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  • Critical 9.8
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  • High 7.5
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    XML External Entity (XXE) Injection in JDOM

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  • Medium 4.8

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  • Unscored —

    When opening a specially crafted 3DXML file, the application containing Datakit Software libraries CatiaV5_3dRead, Cati…

  • High 8.1
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  • Critical 9.1

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  • High 8.8

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  • Unscored —

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  • High 7.1

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  • Medium 5.4

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  • Medium 5.4

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  • High 8.1

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  • High 8.1

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  • High 8.1

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  • High 8.1
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