CVE-2020-14478CWE-611
IMPROPER RESTRICTION OF XML EXTERNAL ENTITY REFERENCE CWE-611
High · published February 24, 2022
What it is
A local, authenticated attacker could use an XML External Entity (XXE) attack to exploit weakly configured XML files to access local or remote content. A successful exploit could potentially cause a denial-of-service condition and allow the attacker to arbitrarily read any local file via system-level services.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.1 · HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00336 · 25.8th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
- Published
- 2022-02-24T18:27Z
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