fontTools XML external entity injection | CVE-2023-45139

NAME
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fontTools XML external entity injection

Platforms Affected:
fontTools fontTools 4.28.2
fontTools fontTools 4.42.1

Risk Level:
7.5

Exploitability:
Unproven

Consequences:
Gain Access

DESCRIPTION
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fontTools is vulnerable to an XML external entity injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data, caused by a weakly configured XML parser. By using specially crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files.

CVSS 3.0 Information
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Privileges Required:
None

User Interaction:
None

Scope:
Unchanged

Access Vector:
Network


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