CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-6685

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Feb 19, 2020 | Modified: Jul 15, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Nokogiri before 1.5.4 is vulnerable to XXE attacks

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Nokogiri Nokogiri * 1.5.4 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References