### [CVE-2019-17637](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17637)
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### Description

In all versions of Eclipse Web Tools Platform through release 3.18 (2020-06), XML and DTD files referring to external entities could be exploited to send the contents of local files to a remote server when edited or validated, even when external entity resolution is disabled in the user preferences.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458571

#### Github
- https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2019-17637