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CVE-2018-1259

XML External Entity (XXE): is CVE-2018-1259real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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Exploited in wild
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CISA KEV
Base severity
7.5 High
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
5%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
CWE-611 · XML External Entity (XXE)
CWE

High CVSS base score, but low real-world exploitation probability (EPSS). Likely less urgent than the score implies.

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Affected:BroadcomPivotal SoftwareVMwareXmlbeam

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Spring Data Commons, versions 1.13 prior to 1.13.12 and 2.0 prior to 2.0.7, used in combination with XMLBeam 1.4.14 or earlier versions, contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references as underlying library XMLBeam does not restrict external reference expansion. An unauthenticated remote malicious user can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding to access arbitrary files on the system.

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