CVE-2025-34490 (GCVE-0-2025-34490)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-28 19:02
Modified
2025-04-28 19:44
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
GFI MailEssentials prior to version 21.8 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue. An authenticated and remote attacker can send crafted HTTP requests to read arbitrary system files.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GFI MailEssentials Version: 0   < 21.8
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