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

CVE-2017-18640

High
7.5/10

Summary

The Alias feature in SnakeYAML allows entity expansion during a load operation, a related issue to CVE-2003-1564.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH

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

The software uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

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  • Published