CVE-2021-23926 (GCVE-0-2021-23926)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-14 14:45 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:27
VLAI
Title
XMLBeans XML Entity Expansion
Summary
The XML parsers used by XMLBeans up to version 2.6.0 did not set the properties needed to protect the user from malicious XML input. Vulnerabilities include possibilities for XML Entity Expansion attacks. Affects XMLBeans up to and including v2.6.0.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Information Disclosure
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache XMLBeans Affected: Apache XMLBeans , ≤ 2.6.0 (custom)
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