Critical
Security advisory
A flaw in libxml2 allows remote XML entity inclusion with default parser flags (i.e., when the caller did not request entity substitution, DTD validation, external DTD subset loading, or default DTD attributes). Depending on the context, this may expose a higher-risk attack surface in libxml2 not usually reachable with default parser flags, and expose content from local files, HTTP, or FTP servers (which might be otherwise unreachable).
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7375
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw in libxml2 allows remote XML entity inclusion with default parser flags (i.e., when the caller did not request entity substitution, DTD validation, external DTD subset loading, or default DTD attributes). Depending on the context, this may expose a higher-risk attack surface in libxml2 not usually reachable with default parser flags, and expose content from local files, HTTP, or FTP servers (which might be otherwise unreachable).
osv:CVE-2017-7375
Complete source record
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