CVE-2018-1000889

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-611

Description

Logisim Evolution version 2.14.3 and earlier contains an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Circuit file loading functionality (loadXmlFrom in src/com/cburch/logisim/file/XmlReader.java) that can result in information leak, possible RCE depending on system configuration. This attack appears to be exploitable via the victim opening a specially crafted circuit file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.14.4.

Affected products

Logisim-Evolution Project Logisim-Evolution: through 2.14.3

References

https://github.com/reds-heig/logisim-evolution/pull/139
https://www.kvakil.me/posts/logisim/
https://github.com/reds-heig/logisim-evolution/pull/139
https://www.kvakil.me/posts/logisim/

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