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processing-core — security advisory
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.
- Products
- processing-core
- Affected versions
- 1.2.1-1, 1.2.1-2, 1.2.1-3, 1.2.1-3build1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1000840
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000840
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Complete source record
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