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ghsa-vvh2-g87v-gg7j

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:38

Modified

2022-05-13 01:38

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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  "id": "GHSA-vvh2-g87v-gg7j",
  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:38:30Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:38:30Z",
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    },
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CVE-2016-9487 (GCVE-0-2016-9487)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-07-13 20:00

Modified

2024-08-06 02:50

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-611

Summary

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.

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Tags

	https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/779243	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT-VN
	https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94864/	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	EpubCheck	EpubCheck	Version: 4.0.1

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