CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1000069
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-611
Description
FreePlane version 1.5.9 and earlier contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in XML Parser in mindmap loader that can result in stealing data from victim's machine. This attack appears to require the victim to open a specially crafted mind map file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.6+.
Affected configurations
• freeplane freeplane (<= 1.5.9)
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4175 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/XML_External_Entity_vulnerability_in_map_parser Vendor Advisory
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXtiTNilAI Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4175 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/XML_External_Entity_vulnerability_in_map_parser Vendor Advisory
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXtiTNilAI Exploit, Third Party Advisory