XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Processing 3.4 and earlier allows arbitrary file reading and exfiltration via crafted XML document parsing

CVE-2018-1000840 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Processing Foundation Processing version 3.4 and earlier contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in loadXML() function that can result in An attacker can read arbitrary files and exfiltrate their contents via HTTP requests. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must use Processing to parse a crafted XML document.

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