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XML External Entity Injection

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XML External Entity (XXE) attacks exploit XML parsers that process Document Type Definitions (DTDs) without proper restrictions.

How It Works

XML External Entity (XXE) attacks exploit XML parsers that process Document Type Definitions (DTDs) without proper restrictions. When an application accepts XML input, an attacker can inject a malicious DOCTYPE declaration containing external entity references. These entities instruct the parser to fetch content from arbitrary locations—either local files on the server or remote URLs.

The attack begins with crafting XML that defines an external entity, such as <!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd">, then references it within the document body using &xxe;. When the parser processes this XML, it automatically resolves the entity, reading the specified file and incorporating its contents into the parsed output. Attackers can retrieve this data directly if it's reflected in responses, or use out-of-band techniques when the application doesn't display parsed content.

Beyond basic file retrieval, XXE enables Server-Side Request Forgery by using HTTP/HTTPS URLs in entity declarations, allowing attackers to probe internal networks. Parameter entities create "blind XXE" scenarios where data is exfiltrated through DNS queries or HTTP requests to attacker-controlled servers. The attack surface extends beyond obvious XML endpoints—SVG images, Microsoft Office documents (DOCX/XLSX), and SOAP services all contain XML that parsers process, often without developer awareness.

Impact

  • Arbitrary file disclosure: Read sensitive files like /etc/passwd, application configuration files, source code, or SSH keys
  • Server-Side Request Forgery: Scan internal networks, access cloud metadata services (AWS EC2 metadata), or interact with internal APIs
  • Denial of Service: Exponential entity expansion attacks (Billion Laughs) consume memory and CPU, crashing applications
  • Remote code execution: In specific configurations with expect:// protocol handlers or through PHP's phar:// wrapper exploitation
  • Authentication bypass: Extract credential files or session tokens from filesystem

Real-World Examples

The Facebook career site XXE vulnerability (2014) allowed attackers to read arbitrary files from internal servers by uploading malicious DOCX resumes. The XML contained within the Office document format was parsed without entity restrictions, exposing internal file contents.

Google's XML parsing infrastructure suffered from XXE in several products including Google Toolbar and Google Mini search appliance, where attackers could retrieve configuration files and access internal network resources through crafted XML requests.

Cisco's Security Manager (CVE-2018-15379) contained an XXE vulnerability in its SOAP interface that permitted unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files with root privileges. Attackers exploited this by sending specially crafted SOAP messages containing external entity declarations to the management interface.

Mitigation

  • Disable external entity processing entirely in XML parser configuration (setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true))
  • Disable DTD processing if external entities can't be disabled (setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false))
  • Use JSON instead of XML for APIs and data interchange when possible
  • Implement allowlisting for XML schemas and reject documents with DOCTYPE declarations
  • Apply strict input validation on content-type headers to prevent forced XML parsing
  • Use less complex XML parsers or dedicated security-focused parsing libraries
  • Run XML processing in sandboxed environments with restricted filesystem and network access

Recent CVEs (1290)

EPSS 1% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation 20.0.2 and 20.0.3 IF002 are vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

IBM XXE Cloud Pak For Automation
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

MuleSoft is aware of a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability affecting certain versions of a Mule runtime component that may affect both CloudHub and on-premise customers. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Salesforce Mule
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

/exec in TranzWare e-Commerce Payment Gateway (TWEC PG) before 3.1.27.5 had a vulnerability in its XML parser. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Tranzware E Commerce Payment Gateway Compassplus
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

A remote authenticated authenticated xml external entity (xxe) vulnerability was discovered in Aruba AirWave Management Platform version(s): Prior to 8.2.12.0. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service XXE Aruba +2
NVD
EPSS 19% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

LumisXP (aka Lumis Experience Platform) before 10.0.0 allows unauthenticated blind XXE via an API request to PageControllerXml.jsp. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service XXE Lumis Experience Platform
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

EPrints 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and possibly execute commands via crafted JSON/XML input to a cgi/ajax/phrase URI. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

XXE Eprints
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

SRS Policy Manager 6.X is affected by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability due to a misconfigured XML parser that processes user-supplied DTD input without sufficient validation. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Dell Emc Srs Policy Manager
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Pelco Digital Sentry Server 7.18.72.11464 has an XML External Entity vulnerability (exploitable via the DTD parameter entities technique), resulting in disclosure and retrieval of arbitrary data on. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Digital Sentry Server Pelco
NVD GitHub
EPSS 5% CVSS 8.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

IBM XXE Websphere Application Server
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

openHAB is a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Openhab
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

An XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability was discovered in the Nutch DmozParser and is known to affect Nutch versions < 1.18. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Apache XXE Snap Creator Framework +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

XML External Entity Injection vulnerability in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (Previously known as Quality Center) product. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Application Lifecycle Management Microfocus
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

OWASP json-sanitizer before 1.2.2 may emit closing SCRIPT tags and CDATA section delimiters for crafted input. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Json Sanitizer Owasp
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM This Month

SAP EPM Add-in for Microsoft Office, version - 1010 and SAP EPM Add-in for SAP Analysis Office, version - 2.8, allows an authenticated attacker with user privileges to parse malicious XML files which. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Microsoft SAP +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Plone before 5.2.3 allows XXE attacks via a feature that is protected by an unapplied permission of plone.schemaeditor.ManageSchemata (therefore, only available to the Manager role). Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Plone
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Plone before 5.2.3 allows XXE attacks via a feature that is explicitly only available to the Manager role. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Plone
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Nokogiri is a Rubygem providing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parsers with XPath and CSS selector support. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

SSRF XXE Debian +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An XXE attack can occur in Kronos WebTA 5.0.4 when SAML is used. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Web Time And Attendance Kronos
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

In Zimbra Collaboration Suite Network Edition versions < 9.0.0 P10 and 8.8.15 P17, there exists an XXE vulnerability in the saml consumer store extension, which is vulnerable to XXE attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Collaboration Zimbra
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager 3.x before 3.29.0 allows a user with admin privileges to configure the system to gain access to content outside of NXRM via an XXE vulnerability. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Nexus Repository Manager Sonatype
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue was discovered in Intland codeBeamer ALM 10.x through 10.1.SP4. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Codebeamer Intland
NVD
EPSS 18% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH Act Now

A flaw was found in FasterXML Jackson Databind, where it did not have entity expansion secured properly. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

Apache XXE Oracle +42
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Jenkins CVS Plugin 2.16 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Cvs
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Crafter CMS Crafter Studio 3.0.1 is affected by: XML External Entity (XXE). Rated high severity (CVSS 8.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

XXE Craftercms Crafter Cms
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 3.7
LOW PATCH Monitor

TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. No vendor patch available.

PHP XXE Typo3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability exists in EcoStruxure Building Operation WebReports V1.9 - V3.1 that could cause an authenticated remote user being able. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +2
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

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. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

SSRF XXE Aura System Manager +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in subsystem forIntel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition before version 20.3 and Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Standard Edition before version 20.2 may. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

Information Disclosure XXE Intel +1
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM POC This Month

Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance (IMSVA) 9.1 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Processing (XXE) vulnerability which could allow an authenticated administrator to read. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Trend Micro Interscan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Jenkins Visualworks Store Plugin 1.1.3 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Visualworks Store
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Jenkins Mercurial Plugin 2.11 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Mercurial
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Jenkins Subversion Plugin 2.13.1 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Subversion
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

An XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) before 9.1R9 and Pulse Policy Secure (PPS) before 9.1R9 allows remote authenticated admins to conduct server-side request. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

SSRF XXE Ivanti +5
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An XXE vulnerability exists within LeviStudioU Release Build 2019-09-21 and prior when processing parameter entities, which may allow file disclosure. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Levistudiou We Con
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

An XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability may impact IBM Curam Social Program Management 7.0.9 and 7.0.10. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF IBM +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Jenkins Nerrvana Plugin 1.02.06 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Nerrvana
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

In mapfish-print before version 3.24, a user can do to an XML External Entity (XXE) attack with the provided SDL style. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

XXE Print Mapfish
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

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. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Apache XXE Nifi
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM POC This Month

A vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure < 9.1R8.2 admin web interface could allow an authenticated attacker to gain arbitrary file reading access through Pulse Collaboration via XML External. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Ivanti Connect Secure +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC Act Now

There is a XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in halo v1.1.3, The function of importing other blogs in the background(/api/admin/migrations/wordpress) needs to parse the xml file, but it is not. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

WordPress XXE Halo
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Jenkins Liquibase Runner Plugin 1.4.5 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Liquibase Runner
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

IBM XXE Websphere Application Server
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway through 4.17.6. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

SSRF XXE Ozeki Ng Sms Gateway +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in Gradle Enterprise 2018.5 - 2020.2.4. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

SSRF XXE Gradle +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in DotPlant2 before 2020-09-14. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

PHP XXE Dotplant2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

yWorks yEd Desktop before 3.20.1 allows XXE attacks via an XML or GraphML document. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Yed
NVD
EPSS 72% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC THREAT This Week

When using the StreamGenerator, the code parse a user-provided XML. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Apache XXE Cocoon
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered in Hyland OnBase 16.0.2.83 and below, 17.0.2.109 and below, 18.0.0.37 and below, 19.8.16.1000 and below and 20.3.10.1000 and below. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Onbase Hyland
NVD
EPSS 74% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of NEC ExpressCluster 4.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Expresscluster X Nec
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

WebDAV implementation in Yaws web server versions 1.81 to 2.0.7 is vulnerable to XXE injection. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

XXE Debian Canonical +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Jenkins Klocwork Analysis Plugin 2020.2.1 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Klocwork Analysis
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

Jenkins Valgrind Plugin 0.28 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Valgrind
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

MPXJ through 8.1.3 allows XXE attacks. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Oracle Primavera Unifier +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.3
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Guest.migrate in virt/libvirt/guest.py in OpenStack Nova before 19.3.1, 20.x before 20.3.1, and 21.0.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

XXE Openstack Nova
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Maltego before 4.2.12 allows XXE attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Maltego
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

The Management Console in certain WSO2 products allows XXE attacks during EventReceiver updates. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Api Manager Enterprise Integrator +4
NVD
EPSS 27% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC PATCH THREAT Act Now

The Management Console in WSO2 API Manager through 3.1.0 and API Microgateway 2.2.0 allows XML External Entity injection (XXE) attacks. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Api Manager Api Microgateway +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Several XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerabilities in the Moog EXO Series EXVF5C-2 and EXVP7C2-3 units allow remote unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files via a crafted Document Type Definition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Exvf5C 2 Firmware Exvp7C2 3 Firmware +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.2
HIGH This Week

IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) 6.2.7.3, 6.2.7.4, 7.0.3.0, and 7.0.4.0 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

IBM XXE Urbancode Deploy
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

IBM Cognos Anaytics 11.0 and 11.1 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

IBM XXE Cognos Analytics
NVD
EPSS 32% CVSS 8.2
HIGH POC PATCH THREAT This Week

IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.6.0.1 and 7.6.0.2 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

IBM XXE Maximo Asset Management
NVD
EPSS 64% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Veeam ONE 10.0.0.750_20200415. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE One Firmware Veeam
NVD
EPSS 9% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Veeam ONE 10.0.0.750_20200415. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE One Firmware Veeam
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.3
HIGH This Week

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. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Cisco Sd Wan Firmware
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.2
HIGH This Week

IBM Sterling External Authentication Server 6.0.1, 6.0.0, 2.4.3.2, and 2.4.2 and IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 6.0.1, 6.0.0, 3.4.3, and 3.4.2 are vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE). Rated high severity (CVSS 8.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

IBM XXE Sterling Secure Proxy +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

XXE injection can occur in i-net Clear Reports 2019 19.0.287 (Designer), as used in i-net HelpDesk and other products, when XML input containing a reference to an external entity is processed by a. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE I Net Clear Reports Inetsoftware
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3 and 7.4 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

IBM XXE Qradar Security Information And Event Manager
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

Rockwell Automation Logix Designer Studio 5000 Versions 32.00, 32.01, and 32.02 vulnerable to an xml external entity (XXE) vulnerability, which may allow an attacker to view hostnames or other. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Rockwell Studio 5000 Logix Designer +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Mitsubishi Electoric FA Engineering Software (CPU Module Logging Configuration Tool Ver. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Cpu Module Logging Configuration Tool Cw Configurator +19
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in io/gpx/GPXDocumentReader.java in TuxGuitar 1.5.4. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Java XXE Tuxguitar
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.2
HIGH This Week

In WebFOCUS Business Intelligence 8.0 (SP6), the administration portal allows remote attackers to read arbitrary local files or forge server-side HTTP requests via a crafted HTTP request to. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Ibi Webfocus Business Intelligence
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

OX App Suite through 7.10.3 allows XXE attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Open Xchange Open Xchange Appsuite
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM This Month

In WSO2 API Manager 3.0.0 and earlier, WSO2 API Microgateway 2.2.0, and WSO2 IS as Key Manager 5.9.0 and earlier, Management Console allows XXE during addition or update of a Lifecycle. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Api Manager Identity Server As Key Manager +2
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

PostgreSQL JDBC Driver (aka PgJDBC) before 42.2.13 allows XXE. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

PostgreSQL XXE Debian +7
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.6
HIGH This Week

IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3 and 7.4 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

IBM XXE Qradar Security Information And Event Manager
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.6 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

IBM XXE Security Identity Governance And Intelligence
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Improper restriction of XML external entity reference ('XXE') vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Panorama management service allows remote unauthenticated attackers with network access to the. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Paloalto Pan Os +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

In TechSmith SnagIt 11.2.1 through 20.0.3, an XML External Entity (XXE) injection issue exists that would allow a local attacker to exfiltrate data under the local Administrator account. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Snagit Techsmith
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

XXE during an EventPublisher update can occur in Management Console in WSO2 API Manager 3.0.0 and earlier, API Manager Analytics 2.5.0 and earlier, API Microgateway 2.2.0, Enterprise Integrator 6.4.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Api Manager Enterprise Integrator +6
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM This Month

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. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in service-api before 4.3.12 and 5.x before 5.1.1 for Report Portal. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

SSRF XXE Service Api +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 7% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

dom4j before 2.0.3 and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 allows external DTDs and External Entities by default, which might enable XXE attacks. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability could allow attackers to read arbitrary files or perform SSRF through XML processing.

XXE Oracle Canonical +40
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

For the Central Licensing Server component used in ABB products ABB Ability™ System 800xA and related system extensions versions 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1, Compact HMI versions 5.1 and 6.0, Control Builder. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Abb 800Xa System +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator through 6.6.0 has an XXE vulnerability where a user (with admin console access) can use the XML validator to make unintended network invocations such as SSRF via an. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

SSRF XXE Enterprise Integrator +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Jenkins Parasoft Findings Plugin 10.4.3 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Parasoft Findings
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Act Now

SAP Commerce, versions - 6.6, 6.7, 1808, 1811, 1905, does not process XML input securely in the Rest API from Servlet xyformsweb, leading to Missing XML Validation. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE SAP Commerce Cloud
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

WebAccess/NMS (versions prior to 3.0.2) does not sanitize XML input. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Webaccess Nms Advantech
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Jenkins Code Coverage API Plugin 1.1.4 and earlier does not configure its XML parser to prevent XML external entity (XXE) attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XXE Jenkins Code Coverage Api
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An XXE issue was discovered in CIPPlanner CIPAce 9.1 Build 2019092801. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Cipace Cipplanner
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Osmand through 2.0.0 allow XXE because of binary/BinaryMapIndexReader.java. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

XXE Osmand
NVD GitHub
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