Arbitrary File Read Affecting com.adobe.xmp:xmpcore package, versions [,5.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMADOBEXMP-32022
  • published10 Dec 2017
  • disclosed13 Jul 2016
  • creditTim Allison

Introduced: 13 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-4216  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

com.adobe.xmp:xmpcore is a XMP Library for Java, based on the C++ XMPCore library.

XMPCore in Adobe XMP Toolkit for Java before 5.1.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via XML data containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

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