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CVE-2018-1000069

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

FreePlane version 1.5.9 and earlier contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in XML Parser in mindmap loader that can result in stealing data from victim's machine. This attack appears to require the victim to open a specially crafted mind map file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.6+.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Freeplane: through 1.5.9

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00019.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4175
• https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/XML_External_Entity_vulnerability_in_map_parser
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXtiTNilAI
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00019.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4175
• https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/XML_External_Entity_vulnerability_in_map_parser
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IXtiTNilAI

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