cvelistv5 - CVE-2017-9096

CVE-2017-9096

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-11-08 16:00

Modified

2024-08-05 16:55

Severity ?

Summary

The XML parsers in iText before 5.5.12 and 7.x before 7.0.3 do not disable external entities, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML external entity (XXE) attacks via a crafted PDF.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/541483/100/0/threaded	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.org	https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03902en_us	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Datein/Research/Advisories/CSNC-2017-017_itext_xml_external_entity_attack.txt	Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org	https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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