CVE-2016-3720: XmlMapper is vulnerable to XXE attack

June 10, 2016 (updated October 10, 2019)

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in XmlMapper in the Data format extension for Jackson (aka jackson-dataformat-xml) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328427
github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-xml/issues/190

Code Behaviors & Features

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