CVE-2023-45139 (GCVE-0-2023-45139)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-10 16:03 – Updated: 2025-06-03 14:27
VLAI
Title
fonttools XML External Entity Injection (XXE) Vulnerability
Summary
fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. The subsetting module has a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed. This allows attackers to include arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system. This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.43.0.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fonttools fonttools Affected: >= 4.28.2, < 4.43.0
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