CVE-2016-9181

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

perl-Image-Info: When parsing an SVG file, external entity expansion (XXE) was not disabled. An attacker could craft an SVG file which, when processed by an application using perl-Image-Info, could cause denial of service or, potentially, information disclosure.

Affected products

Image-Info Project Image-Info For Perl: 1.16, 1.30

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94220
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379556
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94220

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