CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1000840
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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
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.
Affected configurations
• processing processing (<= 3.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness
References
- https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5706 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1054333613465059329 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5706 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1054333613465059329 Third Party Advisory