{ "data_version": "4.0", "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2025-2905", "ASSIGNER": "security@wso2.com", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "** UNSUPPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in the gateway component of WSO2 API Manager due to insufficient validation of XML input in crafted URL paths. User-supplied XML is parsed without appropriate restrictions, enabling external entity resolution.\n\n\nThis vulnerability can be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to read files from the server\u2019s filesystem or perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.\n\n\n\n * \nOn systems running JDK 7 or early JDK 8, full file contents may be exposed.\n\n\n\n\n * \nOn later versions of JDK 8 and newer, only the first line of a file may be read, due to improvements in XML parser behavior.\n\n\n\n\n * \nDoS attacks such as \"Billion Laughs\" payloads can cause service disruption." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference", "cweId": "CWE-611" } ] } ] }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "WSO2", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "WSO2 API Manager", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_affected": "<=", "version_name": "0", "version_value": "2.0.0" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "url": "https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-3993/", "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-3993/" } ] }, "generator": { "engine": "Vulnogram 0.2.0" }, "source": { "advisory": "WSO2-2025-3993", "discovery": "EXTERNAL" }, "solution": [ { "lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [ { "base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "Follow the instructions given on https://security.docs.wso2.com/en/latest/security-announcements/security-advisories/2025/WSO2-2025-3...
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