Bug 2461936 (CVE-2018-25282) - CVE-2018-25282 nmap: zenmap: Nmap/ZenMap: Denial of Service via XML entity expansion
Summary: CVE-2018-25282 nmap: zenmap: Nmap/ZenMap: Denial of Service via XML entity ex...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2018-25282
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-26 14:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-27 12:56 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-26 14:02:34 UTC
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.


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