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CVE-2026-12993

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Description

A flaw was found in Apicurio Registry. The DocumentBuilderAccessor correctly blocks external DTD and schema access but does not disable DOCTYPE declarations or enable FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING. An attacker with artifact-write permission can upload XML documents with internal entity-expansion payloads (billion-laughs variant) that cause CPU and heap exhaustion, partially mitigated by the JAXP default 64,000 entity-expansion limit.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.5 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2026-06-26 00:16:50.760000
Last modified
2026-10-25 22:10:00.150000
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