CVE-2025-68463 (GCVE-0-2025-68463)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-18 05:40
Modified
2025-12-18 21:34
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
Bio.Entrez in Biopython through 186 allows doctype XXE.
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