XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting fonttools package, versions <4.46.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-FONTTOOLS-6153777
  • published12 Jan 2024
  • disclosed10 Jan 2024

Introduced: 10 Jan 2024

CVE-2023-45139  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-611  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 fonttools to version 4.46.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fonttools package and not the fonttools package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

fontTools is a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python. The subsetting module has a XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability which allows an attacker to resolve arbitrary entities when a candidate font (OT-SVG fonts), which contains a SVG table, is parsed. This allows attackers to include arbitrary files from the filesystem fontTools is running on or make web requests from the host system. This vulnerability has been patched in version 4.43.0.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1