FKIE_CVE-2018-1000840

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-12-20 15:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:33
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Processing Foundation Processing version 3.4 and earlier contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in loadXML() function that can result in An attacker can read arbitrary files and exfiltrate their contents via HTTP requests. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must use Processing to parse a crafted XML document.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5706Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1054333613465059329Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5706Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1054333613465059329Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
processing processing *
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