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XML External Entity (XXE) Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package simple-xml  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-SIMPLEXML-264622
  • published17 Nov 2017
  • disclosed17 Nov 2017
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Introduced: 17 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-1000190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-611  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream simple-xml package and not the simple-xml package as distributed by Ubuntu.

SimpleXML (latest version 2.7.1) is vulnerable to an XXE vulnerability resulting SSRF, information disclosure, DoS and so on.

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