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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2018-25282

Nmap 7.70 Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion

Description

Nmap 7.70 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malicious XML files with exponential entity expansion. Attackers can create a crafted XML file with nested entity definitions and open it through ZenMap's scan import functionality to cause the program to consume excessive system resources and crash.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

ZenMap ZenMap

  • 7.70affected

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