XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

Overview ebookmeta is a Read/write ebook metadata for fb2, epub2 and epub3 files Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to XML External Entity XXE Injection in the ebookmeta.getmetadata function via lxml dependency allows attackers to access sensitive information or cause a Denial of...

JLSEC-2026-468

In libxml2 2.11 before 2.11.9, 2.12 before 2.12.9, and 2.13 before 2.13.3, the SAX parser can produce events for external entities even if custom SAX handlers try to override entity content by setting "checked". This makes classic XXE attacks possible...

Exploit for CVE-2025-66516

CVE-2025-66516 / CVE-2025-54988 - Apache Tika XXE Vulnerabilit...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-2175

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Apache PDFBox before 1.8.12 and 2.x before 2.0.1 does not properly initialize the XML parsers, which allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External...

CVE-2023-52239

The XML parser in Magic xpi Integration Platform 4.13.4 allows XXE attacks, e.g., via onItemImport...

SUSE CVE-2017-5992

Openpyxl 2.4.1 resolves external entities by default, which allows remote attackers to conduct XXE attacks via a crafted .xlsx document...

SUSE CVE-2020-1693

A flaw was found in Spacewalk up to version 2.9 where it was vulnerable to XML internal entity attacks via the /rpc/api endpoint. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the content of certain files and trigger a denial of service, or in certain circumstances, execute...

The vulnerability of the dynamic data management framework Apache Calcite, related to incorrect restrictions on XML links to external objects, allows attackers to perform XXE attacks.

The vulnerability of the Apache Calcite dynamic data management framework is related to incorrect restrictions on XML references to external objects. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform XXE attacks using specially created XML code...

Several Zend Products Vulnerable to XXE and XEE attacks

Zend Framework 1 ZF1 before 1.12.4, Zend Framework 2 before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.6, ZendOpenId, ZendRest, ZendServiceAudioScrobbler, ZendServiceNirvanix, ZendServiceSlideShare, ZendServiceTechnorati, and ZendServiceWindowsAzure before 2.0.2, ZendServiceAmazon before 2.0.3, and ZendServiceAp...

CVE-2021-40439

Apache OpenOffice has a dependency on expat software. Versions prior to 2.1.0 were subject to CVE-2013-0340 a "Billion Laughs" entity expansion denial of service attack and exploit via crafted XML files. ODF files consist of a set of XML files. All versions of Apache OpenOffice up to 4.1.10 are...

GHSA-6X4W-8W53-XRVV XXE in Apache Standard Taglibs

Apache Standard Taglibs before 1.2.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct external XML entity XXE attacks via a crafted XSLT extension in a 1 or 2 JSTL XML tag...

dom4j: XML External Entity vulnerability in default SAX parser

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. However, there is popular external documentation from OWASP showing how to enable the safe, non-default behavior in any application that uses dom4j...

SUSE-SU-2017:1701-1 Security update for jakarta-taglibs-standard

This update for jakarta-taglibs-standard fixes the following issues: - CVE-2015-0254: Apache Standard Taglibs allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct external XML entity XXE attacks via a crafted XSLT extension in a 1 x:parse or 2 x:transform JSTL XML tag. bsc920813...

SUSE-SU-2017:1568-1 Security update for jakarta-taglibs-standard

This update for jakarta-taglibs-standard fixes the following issues: - CVE-2015-0254: Apache Standard Taglibs allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct external XML entity XXE attacks via a crafted XSLT extension in a 1 x:parse or 2 x:transform JSTL XML tag. bsc920813...

CVE-2015-8978

In Soap Lite aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl 1.14 and earlier, an example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion copie...

OpenJDK: StAX parser parameter entity XXE (JAXP, 8039533)

It was discovered that the StAX XML parser in the JAXP component in OpenJDK performed expansion of external parameter entities even when external entity substitution was disabled. A remote attacker could use this flaw to perform XML eXternal Entity XXE attack against applications using the StAX...

apache-poi: XML eXternal Entity (XXE) flaw

It was found that Apache POI would resolve entities in OOXML documents. A remote attacker able to supply OOXML documents that are parsed by Apache POI could use this flaw to read files accessible to the user running the application server, and potentially perform more advanced XML External Entity...