IMPROPER RESTRICTION OF XML EXTERNAL ENTITY REFERENCE CWE-611

CVE-2020-14478

What is CVE-2020-14478?

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.

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