CVE-2016-3720

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-10 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in XmlMapper in the Data format extension for Jackson (aka jackson-dataformat-xml) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

FasterXML Jackson-Dataformat-Xml: through 2.7.3
Fedoraproject Fedora: 24

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184561.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184561.html

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