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CVE-2025-0617 (GCVE-0-2025-0617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-29 10:08 – Updated: 2025-02-12 19:51
VLAI
Summary
An attacker with access to an HX 10.0.0 and previous versions, may send specially-crafted data to the HX console. The malicious detection would then trigger file parsing containing exponential entity expansions in the consumer process thus causing a Denial of Service.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-29 14:18 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Trellix Trellix HX Console Affected: 5.1.1
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