CVE-2026-12993

MEDIUM

Apicurio/apicurio-registry: apicurio-registry: xml entity-expansion denial of service via internal dtd subset

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in Apicurio Registry. The DocumentBuilderAccessor correctly blocks external DTD and schema access but does not disable DOCTYPE declarations or enable FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING. An attacker with artifact-write permission can upload XML documents with internal entity-expansion payloads (billion-laughs variant) that cause CPU and heap exhaustion, partially mitigated by the JAXP default 64,000 entity-expansion limit.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vdb Entry, X_Refsource_Redhat vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12993
Issue Tracking, X_Refsource_Redhat issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
RHBZ#2491692
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491692

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 15.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-776
Status published
Products (2)
Red Hat/Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3
redhat/build_of_apicurio_registry 3.0 - 3.2
Published Jun 26, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 26, 2026