CVE-2023-6721 (GCVE-0-2023-6721)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-13 10:06 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:35
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Repox
Summary
An XEE vulnerability has been found in Repox, which allows a remote attacker to interfere with the application's XML data processing in the fileupload function, resulting in interaction between the attacker and the server's file system.
Severity
8.3 (High)
CWE
- CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
Date Public
2023-12-12 11:00
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