Vulnerabilities > Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2020-01-24 CVE-2015-9541 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in multiple products
Qt through 5.14 allows an exponential XML entity expansion attack via a crafted SVG document that is mishandled in QXmlStreamReader, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.
network
low complexity
qt fedoraproject CWE-776
7.5
2019-12-12 CVE-2017-18640 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in multiple products
The Alias feature in SnakeYAML before 1.26 allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.
7.5
2019-11-05 CVE-2013-6461 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in multiple products
Nokogiri gem 1.5.x and 1.6.x has DoS while parsing XML entities by failing to apply limits
network
low complexity
nokogiri debian redhat CWE-776
6.5
2019-11-05 CVE-2013-6460 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in multiple products
Nokogiri gem 1.5.x has Denial of Service via infinite loop when parsing XML documents
network
low complexity
nokogiri debian redhat CWE-776
6.5
2019-10-17 CVE-2019-11253 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in multiple products
Improper input validation in the Kubernetes API server in versions v1.0-1.12 and versions prior to v1.13.12, v1.14.8, v1.15.5, and v1.16.2 allows authorized users to send malicious YAML or JSON payloads, causing the API server to consume excessive CPU or memory, potentially crashing and becoming unavailable.
network
low complexity
kubernetes redhat CWE-776
7.5
2019-09-10 CVE-2019-12401 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in Apache Solr
Solr versions 1.3.0 to 1.4.1, 3.1.0 to 3.6.2 and 4.0.0 to 4.10.4 are vulnerable to an XML resource consumption attack (a.k.a.
network
low complexity
apache CWE-776
7.5
2019-09-04 CVE-2019-15903 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in multiple products
In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.
network
low complexity
libexpat-project python CWE-776
7.5
2019-08-19 CVE-2019-15160 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in Kbrw Sweet XML
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.
network
low complexity
kbrw CWE-776
7.5
2019-06-12 CVE-2019-5442 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in Pippo 1.12.0
XML Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs Attack) on Pippo 1.12.0 results in Denial of Service.Entities are created recursively and large amounts of heap memory is taken.
network
low complexity
pippo CWE-776
7.5
2019-04-22 CVE-2019-5427 XML Entity Expansion vulnerability in multiple products
c3p0 version < 0.9.5.4 may be exploited by a billion laughs attack when loading XML configuration due to missing protections against recursive entity expansion when loading configuration.
network
low complexity
mchange fedoraproject oracle CWE-776
7.5