CVE-2019-5427 vulnerability in Mchange and Other Products
Published on April 22, 2019
Weakness Type
What is a XEE Vulnerability?
The software uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities. If the DTD contains a large number of nested or recursive entities, this can lead to explosive growth of data when parsed, causing a denial of service.
CVE-2019-5427 has been classified to as a XEE vulnerability or weakness.
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