Vigil@nce - log4net: external XML entity injection
July 2020 by
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 15/05/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can transmit malicious XML data to log4net, in order
to read a file, scan sites, or trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/log4net-external-XML-entity-injection-32280