CVE-2019-15160

HIGH

SweetXml < 0.6.6 - Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion

Title source: llm

Description

The SweetXml (aka sweet_xml) package through 0.6.6 for Erlang and Elixir allows attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via an XML entity expansion attack with an inline DTD.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://hex.pm/packages/sweet_xml

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/kbrw/sweet_xml/issues/71

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0167

EPSS Percentile 73.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-776

Status published

Products (2)

Hex/sweet_xml 0 - 0.7.0Hex

kbrw/sweet_xml < 0.6.6

Published Aug 19, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026