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1 vulnerability by ZenMap

CVE-2018-25282 (GCVE-0-2018-25282)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-26 13:19 – Updated: 2026-04-27 14:04
VLAI?
Title
Nmap 7.70 Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion
Summary
Nmap 7.70 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malicious XML files with exponential entity expansion. Attackers can create a crafted XML file with nested entity definitions and open it through ZenMap's scan import functionality to cause the program to consume excessive system resources and crash.
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ZenMap ZenMap Affected: 7.70
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Date Public ?
2018-09-10 00:00
Credits
Gionathan "John" Reale
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