CVE-2020-14940

HIGH

TuxGuitar 1.5.4 - XML External Entity Injection in GPX Document Reader

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in io/gpx/GPXDocumentReader.java in TuxGuitar 1.5.4. It uses misconfigured XML parsers, leading to XXE while loading GP6 (.gpx) and GP7 (.gp) tablature files.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxguitar/bugs/126/
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2020/06/tuxguitar.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0359
EPSS Percentile 87.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-611
Status published
Products (1)
herac/tuxguitar 1.5.4
Published Jun 23, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026