CVE-2026-82880 (GCVE-0-2026-82880)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-31 10:51
Modified
2026-08-31 14:18
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
YaCy Search Server through 1.941 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability in SVG, FreeMind, and OpenSearch parsers that fail to disable external entity resolution. Attackers can publish malicious documents with DOCTYPE declarations containing SYSTEM entities pointing to local files, causing the crawler to exfiltrate file contents into the searchable index.
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