CVE-2018-1000840: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

December 20, 2018 (updated February 7, 2019)

Processing Foundation Processing version contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the loadXML(). An attacker can read arbitrary files and read their contents via HTTP requests.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000840

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