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CVE-2016-9487

EpubCheck 4.0.1 is vulnerable to external XML entity processing attacks PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

EpubCheck 4.0.1 does not properly restrict resolving external entities when parsing XML in EPUB files during validation. An attacker who supplies a specially crafted EPUB file may be able to exploit this behavior to read arbitrary files, or have the victim execute arbitrary requests on his behalf, abusing the victim's trust relationship with other entities.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
EpubCheck / EpubCheckaffected 4.0.1

CWE

CWE-611

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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