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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-12993 EUVD-2026-39593GHSA-748j-wm96-4wh5

Apicurio/apicurio-registry: apicurio-registry: xml entity-expansion denial of service via internal dtd subset

Published Jun 25, 2026 · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in Apicurio Registry. The DocumentBuilderAccessor correctly blocks external DTD and schema access but does not disable DOCTYPE declarations or enable FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING. An attacker with artifact-write permission can upload XML documents with internal entity-expansion payloads (billion-laughs variant) that cause CPU and heap exhaustion, partially mitigated by the JAXP default 64,000 entity-expansion limit.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3.3.1 — —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.apicurio:apicurio-registry-schema-util-xml >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.1 3.3.1 GHSA-748j-wm96-4wh5
Maven io.apicurio:apicurio-registry-schema-util-xml < 3.2.6 3.2.6 GHSA-748j-wm96-4wh5

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