CVE-2018-1000840

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

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.

Affected products

Processing: through 3.4

References

https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5706
https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1054333613465059329
https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/5706
https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1054333613465059329

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