Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-15160 - XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in Kbrw Sweet XML

CVSS 7.5 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

kbrw

CWE-776

NVD

Published: 2019-08-19

Updated: 2021-07-21

Summary

The SweetXml (aka sweet_xml) package through 0.6.6 for Erlang and Elixir allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an XML entity expansion attack with an inline DTD.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Kbrw Kbrw Sweet XML - Kbrw Sweet XML 0.1.0 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.1.1 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.2.0 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.2.1 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.3.0 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.4.0 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.5.0 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.5.1 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.6.0 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.6.1 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.6.2 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.6.3 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.6.4 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.6.5 Kbrw Sweet XML 0.6.6	16

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References